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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Leviticus 25:35

Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Deuteronomy 14:28, 29

At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates. / Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Deuteronomy 15:7–11

If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother. / Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs. / Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Isaiah 58:6, 7

Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke? / Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Matthew 5:42

Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Matthew 6:1–4

“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. / So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. / But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Matthew 19:21

Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Luke 11:41

But give as alms the things that are within you, and you will see that everything is clean for you.

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Luke 12:33

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Romans 12:8

if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning 2 Corinthians 9:5–7

So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you beforehand and make arrangements for the bountiful gift you had promised. This way, your gift will be prepared generously and not begrudgingly. / Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. / Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Galatians 2:10

They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning 1 Timothy 6:18

Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning Hebrews 13:16

And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

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Alms: Commandments and Practices Concerning 1 John 3:17

If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

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