Bible Verses About Giving to Your Pastor
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for giving to your pastor, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,756 votes, led by Galatians 6:6-10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Giving to Your Pastor
Galatians 6:6-10241 votes
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
1 Timothy 5:17236 votes
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
1 Corinthians 9:14207 votes
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Matthew 10:41-42139 votes
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.
1 Corinthians 9:11136 votes
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
1 Timothy 5:18135 votes
For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
Hebrews 13:7125 votes
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Ezekiel 44:30116 votes
And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
Malachi 3:1086 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.
Proverbs 11:2575 votes
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Luke 14:12-1472 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.
1 Timothy 3:1-1661 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Luke 8:1-357 votes
And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
Acts 20:3553 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 Kings 4:1-4452 votes
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
Proverbs 11:2449 votes
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Philippians 4:1749 votes
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
Luke 6:3846 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.
Romans 10:1043 votes
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
James 3:139 votes
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Matthew 6:3336 votes
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Ezekiel 33:7-935 votes
So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
Luke 12:3334 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.
Jeremiah 17:1033 votes
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Matthew 6:2430 votes
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
What does the Bible say about giving to your pastor?
Readers most often cite Galatians 6:6-10 on the subject of giving to your pastor. Across 2,756 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 5:17, 1 Corinthians 9:14, Matthew 10:41-42. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.