Bible Cross References
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Luke 12:33
Sell all your belongings and give the money to the poor. Provide for yourselves purses that don't wear out, and save your riches in heaven, where they will never decrease, because no thief can get to them, and no moth can destroy them.
Luke 14:12-14
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Then Jesus said to his host, "When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors---for they will invite you back, and in this way you will be paid for what you did.
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When you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind;
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and you will be blessed, because they are not able to pay you back. God will repay you on the day the good people rise from death."
Luke 16:9
And Jesus went on to say, "And so I tell you: make friends for yourselves with worldly wealth, so that when it gives out, you will be welcomed in the eternal home.
Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is still one more thing you need to do. Sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me."
Luke 19:8
Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Listen, sir! I will give half my belongings to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will pay back four times as much."
Deuteronomy 15:8-10
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Instead, be generous and lend them as much as they need.
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Do not refuse to lend them something, just because the year when debts are canceled is near. Do not let such an evil thought enter your mind. If you refuse to make the loan, they will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be held guilty.
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Give to them freely and unselfishly, and the LORD will bless you in everything you do.
Job 13:16-20
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It may even be that my boldness will save me, since no wicked person would dare to face God.
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Now listen to my words of explanation.
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I am ready to state my case, because I know I am in the right.
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Are you coming to accuse me, God? If you do, I am ready to be silent and die.
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Let me ask for two things; agree to them, and I will not try to hide from you:
Psalm 41:1
Happy are those who are concerned for the poor; the LORD will help them when they are in trouble.
Psalm 112:9
He gives generously to the needy, and his kindness never fails; he will be powerful and respected.
Proverbs 14:31
If you oppress poor people, you insult the God who made them; but kindness shown to the poor is an act of worship.
Proverbs 19:17
When you give to the poor, it is like lending to the LORD, and the LORD will pay you back.
Ecclesiastes 11:1
Invest your money in foreign trade, and one of these days you will make a profit.
Ecclesiastes 11:2
Put your investments in several places---many places even---because you never know what kind of bad luck you are going to have in this world.
Isaiah 58:7-11
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Share your food with the hungry and open your homes to the homeless poor. Give clothes to those who have nothing to wear, and do not refuse to help your own relatives.
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"Then my favor will shine on you like the morning sun, and your wounds will be quickly healed. I will always be with you to save you; my presence will protect you on every side.
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When you pray, I will answer you. When you call to me, I will respond. "If you put an end to oppression, to every gesture of contempt, and to every evil word;
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if you give food to the hungry and satisfy those who are in need, then the darkness around you will turn to the brightness of noon.
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And I will always guide you and satisfy you with good things. I will keep you strong and well. You will be like a garden that has plenty of water, like a spring of water that never goes dry.
Daniel 4:27
So then, Your Majesty, follow my advice. Stop sinning, do what is right, and be merciful to the poor. Then you will continue to be prosperous."
Matthew 5:42
When someone asks you for something, give it to him; when someone wants to borrow something, lend it to him.
Matthew 6:1-4
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"Make certain you do not perform your religious duties in public so that people will see what you do. If you do these things publicly, you will not have any reward from your Father in heaven.
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"So when you give something to a needy person, do not make a big show of it, as the hypocrites do in the houses of worship and on the streets. They do it so that people will praise them. I assure you, they have already been paid in full.
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But when you help a needy person, do it in such a way that even your closest friend will not know about it.
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Then it will be a private matter. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you.
Matthew 25:34-40
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Then the King will say to the people on his right, 'Come, you that are blessed by my Father! Come and possess the kingdom which has been prepared for you ever since the creation of the world.
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I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me a drink; I was a stranger and you received me in your homes,
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naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you took care of me, in prison and you visited me.'
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The righteous will then answer him, 'When, Lord, did we ever see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink?
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When did we ever see you a stranger and welcome you in our homes, or naked and clothe you?
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When did we ever see you sick or in prison, and visit you?'
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The King will reply, 'I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!'
Matthew 26:11
You will always have poor people with you, but you will not always have me.
Acts 9:36-39
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In Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, who was a believer. (Her name in Greek is Dorcas, meaning "a deer.") She spent all her time doing good and helping the poor.
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At that time she got sick and died. Her body was washed and laid in a room upstairs.
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Joppa was not very far from Lydda, and when the believers in Joppa heard that Peter was in Lydda, they sent two men to him with the message, "Please hurry and come to us."
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So Peter got ready and went with them. When he arrived, he was taken to the room upstairs, where all the widows crowded around him, crying and showing him all the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was alive.
Acts 10:31
and said: 'Cornelius! God has heard your prayer and has taken notice of your works of charity.
Acts 10:32
Send someone to Joppa for a man whose full name is Simon Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner of leather, who lives by the sea.'
Acts 11:29
The disciples decided that they each would send as much as they could to help their fellow believers who lived in Judea.
Acts 24:17
"After being away from Jerusalem for several years, I went there to take some money to my own people and to offer sacrifices.
2 Corinthians 8:7-9
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You are so rich in all you have: in faith, speech, and knowledge, in your eagerness to help and in your love for us. And so we want you to be generous also in this service of love.
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I am not laying down any rules. But by showing how eager others are to help, I am trying to find out how real your own love is.
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You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; rich as he was, he made himself poor for your sake, in order to make you rich by means of his poverty.
2 Corinthians 8:12-9
2 Corinthians 9:6-15
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Remember that the person who plants few seeds will have a small crop; the one who plants many seeds will have a large crop.
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You should each give, then, as you have decided, not with regret or out of a sense of duty; for God loves the one who gives gladly.
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And God is able to give you more than you need, so that you will always have all you need for yourselves and more than enough for every good cause.
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As the scripture says, "He gives generously to the needy; his kindness lasts forever."
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And God, who supplies seed for the sower and bread to eat, will also supply you with all the seed you need and will make it grow and produce a rich harvest from your generosity.
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He will always make you rich enough to be generous at all times, so that many will thank God for your gifts which they receive from us.
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For this service you perform not only meets the needs of God's people, but also produces an outpouring of gratitude to God.
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And because of the proof which this service of yours brings, many will give glory to God for your loyalty to the gospel of Christ, which you profess, and for your generosity in sharing with them and everyone else.
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And so with deep affection they will pray for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown you.
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Let us thank God for his priceless gift!
Ephesians 4:28
If you used to rob, you must stop robbing and start working, in order to earn an honest living for yourself and to be able to help the poor.
Hebrews 6:10
God is not unfair. He will not forget the work you did or the love you showed for him in the help you gave and are still giving to other Christians.
Hebrews 13:16
Do not forget to do good and to help one another, because these are the sacrifices that please God.
James 1:27
What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world.
James 2:14-16
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My friends, what good is it for one of you to say that you have faith if your actions do not prove it? Can that faith save you?
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Suppose there are brothers or sisters who need clothes and don't have enough to eat.
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What good is there in your saying to them, "God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!"---if you don't give them the necessities of life?
1 John 3:16
This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!
1 John 3:17
If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God?
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Acts 10:15
The voice spoke to him again, "Do not consider anything unclean that God has declared clean."
Romans 14:14-18
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My union with the Lord Jesus makes me certain that no food is of itself ritually unclean; but if you believe that some food is unclean, then it becomes unclean for you.
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If you hurt others because of something you eat, then you are no longer acting from love. Do not let the food that you eat ruin the person for whom Christ died!
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Do not let what you regard as good get a bad name.
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For God's Kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of the righteousness, peace, and joy which the Holy Spirit gives.
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And when you serve Christ in this way, you please God and are approved by others.
1 Timothy 4:4
Everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks,
1 Timothy 4:5
because the word of God and the prayer make it acceptable to God.
Titus 1:15
Everything is pure to those who are themselves pure; but nothing is pure to those who are defiled and unbelieving, for their minds and consciences have been defiled.