An ungodly man performs unrighteous works, but the seed of the righteous is a reward of truth.

He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and He will recompense to him according to his gift.

He that increases his wealth by usury and [unjust] gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor.

You shall surely give to him, and you shall lend to him as much as he wants, according as he is in need. And you shall not grudge in your heart as you give to him, because on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your works, and in all things on which you shall lay your hand.

He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

Send forth your bread upon the face of the water, for you shall find it after many days.

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall be upon the earth.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening let not your hand be slack; for you know not what sort shall prosper whether this or that, or whether both shall be good alike.

Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure, pressed down and shaken and running over they shall give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it shall be measured back to you."

Then the disciples, each according to his ability, determined as a ministry to send relief to the brothers dwelling in Judea;

which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

Therefore I thought it necessary to urge the brothers, that they should go before [me] to you, and should arrange in advance your generous gift, which you had previously promised, [that] this would be ready, thus as a blessing and not as grudgingly given.

Let each [one give] just as he decides in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

just as it is written: "He has dispersed, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever."

in everything being made rich to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving through us to God.

You have sown much, but brought in little; you have eaten, and are not satisfied; you have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, you have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered [them] into a bag full of holes.

You looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty, Because My house is desolate, and you run everyone into his own house;

And I will bring a sword upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and all that the earth produces, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon all the labors of their hands.

[ 2:17] When you cast into the grain bin twenty measures of barley, and there were [only] ten measures of barley: and you went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were [but] twenty.

[ 2:19] Set your hearts now [to think] from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid;