Bible Verses About Benevolence
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for benevolence, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 46,343 votes, led by John 3:16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Benevolence
John 3:16981 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Galatians 6:10856 votes
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
James 1:27835 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Ephesians 4:32779 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
1 Corinthians 7:3765 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Proverbs 28:27749 votes
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Matthew 5:43-48714 votes
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
Luke 6:38683 votes
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Acts 20:35656 votes
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Galatians 5:22654 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Exodus 21:10650 votes
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Romans 13:8-10637 votes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Matthew 25:31-46618 votes
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
Romans 2:4591 votes
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Luke 6:31549 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Acts 17:10-11546 votes
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
James 2:14-24536 votes
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Leviticus 25:35-38534 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.
John 3:16-17472 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Matthew 5:45458 votes
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Hebrews 13:16450 votes
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Acts 11:27-30444 votes
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
1 Timothy 5:16443 votes
If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5:8434 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
1 Corinthians 13:3415 votes
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
What does the Bible say about benevolence?
Readers most often cite John 3:16 on the subject of benevolence. Across 46,343 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Galatians 6:10, James 1:27, Ephesians 4:32. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.