Scripture encourages believers to care for one another and those in need, demonstrating God's love through acts of kindness and service. In Luke 6:38, Jesus teaches that giving to others will result in abundance, while Galatians 6:2 emphasizes the importance of bearing one another's burdens. The apostle James writes about the vital role of caring for orphans and widows in James 1:27, and also reminds believers to love their neighbors as themselves in James 2:8. As 2 Thessalonians 3:13 notes, doing good for others is a way to honor God and reflect His character.
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Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”
Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
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. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
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.
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.