Bible Verses About Giving to Others in Need
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for giving to others in need, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 999 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 to Others in Need
Luke 6:3855 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 20:3555 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.
James 1:1753 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.
Philippians 4:1942 votes
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 13:1638 votes
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
2 Corinthians 9:736 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.
Romans 12:835 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.
Colossians 3:1733 votes
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Proverbs 3:2730 votes
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Proverbs 22:929 votes
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Proverbs 28:2729 votes
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Malachi 3:1027 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.
1 John 3:1726 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?
Matthew 5:4225 votes
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Ephesians 4:2824 votes
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Philippians 2:424 votes
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
James 2:15-1624 votes
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Romans 12:1323 votes
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Proverbs 19:1721 votes
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Galatians 6:221 votes
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Deuteronomy 15:1120 votes
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Deuteronomy 15:1017 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.
Matthew 19:2117 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.
Mark 12:41-4417 votes
And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
James 2:14-1717 votes
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
What does the Bible say about giving to others in need?
Readers most often cite Luke 6:38 on the subject of giving to others in need. Across 999 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Acts 20:35, James 1:17, Philippians 4:19. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.