Bible Verses About Giving and Receiving
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for giving and receiving, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,664 votes, led by Luke 6:38. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Giving and Receiving
Luke 6:38645 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.
Proverbs 11:24-25517 votes
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Acts 20:35465 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.
2 Corinthians 9:7320 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.
Matthew 6:1-34262 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.
Hebrews 13:16247 votes
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
James 1:17228 votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
James 4:17173 votes
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Hebrews 13:5165 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Philippians 4:19154 votes
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Luke 14:12-14135 votes
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
2 Corinthians 9:6-7107 votes
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
James 4:1-5:2086 votes
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
1 Timothy 5:881 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.
Deuteronomy 16:1774 votes
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.
Psalms 150:1-672 votes
Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
John 3:1671 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.
James 1:2271 votes
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
1 Chronicles 29:969 votes
Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
John 14:1-3165 votes
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Proverbs 11:20-2661 votes
They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
Malachi 3:1061 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.
Deuteronomy 15:1059 votes
Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
Genesis 28:20-2258 votes
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
Deuteronomy 14:22-2958 votes
Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
What does the Bible say about giving and receiving?
Readers most often cite Luke 6:38 on the subject of giving and receiving. Across 6,664 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 11:24-25, Acts 20:35, 2 Corinthians 9:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.