Generosity
Giving freely and cheerfully, from a widow's two mites to Paul's teaching on sowing bountifully.
2 Cor 9:6-8
Read in full chapter →6But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
See also: Malachi 3:10, Ecclesiastes 11:6
7Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
See also: 2 Corinthians 8:12, Acts 20:35
8And 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:
See also: Ephesians 3:20, Philippians 4:19
Prov 11:24-25
Read in full chapter →24There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
See also: Philippians 4:19, 2 Corinthians 9:6
25The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
See also: Matthew 5:7, 2 Corinthians 9:6-9
Acts 20:35
Read in full chapter →35I 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.
See also: Agrapha: Sayings of Jesus Not in the Gospels 2:1, Hebrews 13:16
Mark 12:41-44
Read in full chapter →41And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
See also: Luke 21:1, 2 Kings 12:9
42And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
See also: 2 Corinthians 8:12, Luke 21:2
43And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
See also: 1 Kings 17:15, Luke 21:3
44For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
See also: 2 Corinthians 8:2-3, 1 John 3:17