Proverbs 22:9

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

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

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

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.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

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

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

“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.”

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

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.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

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

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

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

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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 be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

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

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

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

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

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

“That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

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

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.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

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

The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

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

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

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;

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

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;

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.

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

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.