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Generosity Acts 20:35

In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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Generosity Proverbs 11:24, 25

One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor. / A generous soul will prosper, and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.

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Generosity Proverbs 19:17

Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.

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Generosity Matthew 6:21

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

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Generosity 1 Timothy 6:17–19

Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy. / Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share, / treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

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Generosity Matthew 10:42

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

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Generosity Proverbs 22:9

A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

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Generosity Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.

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Generosity Psalm 112:5

It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

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Generosity 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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Rashness: David, in his Generosity to Ziba 2 Samuel 16:4

So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”

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Rashness: David, in his Generosity to Ziba 2 Samuel 19:26–29

“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me, / and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes. / For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”

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