Bible Verses About Alms
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for alms, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 514 votes, led by Matthew 6:1-4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Alms
Matthew 6:1-457 votes
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 19:2141 votes
Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
2 Corinthians 9:733 votes
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:5-728 votes
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
1 John 3:1724 votes
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Luke 11:4123 votes
But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
1 Timothy 6:1823 votes
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
Hebrews 6:1022 votes
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Leviticus 25:3521 votes
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Matthew 5:4221 votes
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Hebrews 13:1619 votes
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Proverbs 19:1717 votes
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Matthew 6:216 votes
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Acts 3:216 votes
And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
1 Corinthians 16:1-416 votes
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
Proverbs 16:1915 votes
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Luke 12:3314 votes
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Deuteronomy 15:7-813 votes
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Acts 10:212 votes
A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Matthew 6:1-3411 votes
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Romans 12:811 votes
Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
2 Corinthians 8:1-411 votes
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
Isaiah 58:710 votes
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Malachi 3:1010 votes
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Acts 2:4410 votes
And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
What does the Bible say about alms?
Readers most often cite Matthew 6:1-4 on the subject of alms. Across 514 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 19:21, 2 Corinthians 9:7, 2 Corinthians 9:5-7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.