“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” - James 1:27
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. 1 John 2:15
“Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourself that will never wear out, a treasure in Heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.”- Luke 12:33
“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God” - Luke 6:20
“The love of money is the root of every evil.” - 1 Tim 6:10
“Woe to you who are rich, you have received your comfort.” - Luke 6:24
“Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.” - James 5: 1-5
The Parable of the Rich Fool, who puts all his grain in barns saving up for the future, and then dies and loses it all, and God says “You Fool!”. Jesus sums it up by saying “This is how it will be for whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich towards God.” - Luke 12: 16-21.
“It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.” - Matthew 19:24, (See also Mark 10:25, Luke 18:25)
“The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.” Matthew 13:22
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” Matt 6:24
….dress modestly… not with… gold or pearls or expensive clothes - 1 Tim 2:9-10
“If you want to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give to the poor….” - Matt 19:21
“Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.” Luke 3:11
“Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will repay him for his deed.” -Prov 19:17
….They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything--all she had to live on. - Mark 12:41-44
“Give to everyone who asks you.” - Luke 6:30
“How joyful are those who fear the Lord.... they share freely and give generously to those in need.” - Psalm 112:1, 9
“Be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.” - Luke 11:41
Jesus’ description of the separation of the sheep from the goats when He comes again, with sheep invited into their inheritance with him and goats cast into the eternal fire, based on the questions “When I was hungry, did you feed me? When I was thirsty did you give me drink?” Etc. -Matt 25:31-46
Lazarus and the Rich Man- Luke 16:19-31
They gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. - 2 Cor 8:3
Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.” - 2 Corinthians 8:13-15
“Set aside part of your goods for almsgiving. Never turn your face from the poor and God will never turn his from you. Measure your alms by what you have; if you have much, give more; if you have little, do not be afraid to give less in alms. So doing, you will lay up for yourself a great treasure for the day of necessity. For almsgiving delivers from death and saves people from passing down to darkness. Almsgiving is a most effective offering for all those who do it in the presence of the Most High.” - Tobit 4:7-11
“Your prayers and your gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.” - Acts 10:4
He has filled the hungry with good things, but the rich He has sent away empty.- Luke 1: 53
...give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, “Who is the Lord?”- Prov 30:8-9
I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.As for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will judge between one sheep and another, and between rams and goats. Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet? Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. Because you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns until you have driven them away, I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another. - Ezekiel 34:16-22
“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy…” 2 Tim 3:1-2
“Whoever loves money never has enough;
Whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
As goods increase, so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?
The sleep of a laborer is sweet,
whether they eat little or much,
but as for the rich their abundance
permits them no sleep.- Ecclesiastes 5:10-12
For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness. - 1 Timothy 6:7-11
“But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.” - 1 Corinthians 5:11 (See also 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Ephesians 5:5, and Colossians 3:5.)
“Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.” - 1 John 4:20
“Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.”
“But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’
“In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.” - Malachi 3:8-10
“So I thought it necessary to encourage the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for your promised gift, so that in this way it might be ready as a bountiful gift and not as an exaction. Consider this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. Moreover, God is able to make every grace abundant for you, so that in all things, always having all you need, you may have an abundance for every good work.” - 2 Corinthians 9:5-8
“In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” - Matt 5:16
“Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” - James 2:15-17
If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? - 1 John 3: 17
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