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20 Bible Verses About Giving

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  • A freewill offering in the law was given in proportion to the blessings God had given (Deuteronomy 16:10), and no man was to appear empty-handed at the three yearly festivals (Deuteronomy 16:16-17).
  • Jesus said the widow’s two small coins were more than the gifts of the rich, because she put in all she had to live on (Mark 12:43-44).
  • Zacchaeus gave half his possessions to the poor (Luke 19:8), and the leaders of the Jerusalem church asked Paul and Barnabas to keep remembering the poor (Galatians 2:10).
  • The disciples at Antioch sent famine relief to Judea (Acts 11:29), and Paul organised a weekly collection for the poor in Jerusalem (1 Corinthians 16:2).
  • Jesus told his disciples to sell their possessions and give to the poor (Luke 12:33), and Paul quoted him as saying that giving is more blessed than receiving (Acts 20:35).

The Bible’s teaching on giving runs from the tithe, a tenth set apart for God, through freewill offerings and gifts to the poor, to the collections of the first churches. Jesus praised a poor widow’s two coins (Mark 12:41-44), and Paul gathered money for the poor in Jerusalem (Romans 15:26). In the law the tithe was a fixed tenth, while a freewill offering was given in proportion to the blessings God had given (Deuteronomy 16:10). Much of the giving the…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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