Deuteronomy 15:14

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.”

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you.

He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

At the end of ten days, their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.

Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.

You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.

He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.