Bible Verses About Giving and Tithing
Scripture on open-handed living — cheerful giving, the tithe, and the joy of generosity.
Scripture ties the heart to the wallet more often than we expect, and always toward freedom. It calls giving a joy, not a burden, and promises that the open hand is never the poorer. These verses are for growing a generous life.
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
God loveth a cheerful giver.
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.
Bring ye all the tithes... and prove me now herewith.
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 unto you; good measure, pressed down.
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
The liberal soul shall be made fat.
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.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits.
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
He which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Giving is not God taking from you; it is God freeing you. Start where you are, give cheerfully, and watch how an open hand loosens the grip money wants on the heart.
