Bible Verses About Generosity
Scripture on giving — the open hand, the cheerful giver, and God's strange economy.
Giving runs on a strange economy in Scripture: the scattered increases, the waterer is watered, the giver is the one enriched. These verses open the hand.
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Not grudgingly, not of necessity — God loveth a cheerful giver.
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
The liberal soul made fat; the waterer, watered.
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.
Give, and it shall be given — good measure, pressed down, running over.
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.
The saying of Jesus kept outside the Gospels: more blessed to give.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Kindness to the poor is a loan the LORD himself repays.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
The supply-line promise: all grace, always, all sufficiency.
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Rich in good works, ready to distribute — laying hold on real life.
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.
The one place God says: prove me — in generous trust.
You will never outgive God; nobody ever has. Start where you are, give gladly, and watch the strange economy work — the open hand stays full.
