14 Bible Verses about Giving Without Expecting Return
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And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is it to you? Even bad men lend to their fellows so as to receive back an equal amount.
Nevertheless love your enemies, be beneficent; and lend without hoping for any repayment. Then your recompense shall be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
And if you are kind to those who are kind to you, what credit is it to you? Even bad men act thus.
To every one who asks, give; and from him who takes away your property, do not demand it back.
Also to His host, who had invited Him, He said, "When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbours, lest perhaps they should invite you in return and a requital be made you.
and yet by His beneficence He has not left His existence unattested--His beneficence, I mean, in sending you rain from Heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and joyfulness."
and you will be blessed, because they have no means of requiting you, but there will be requital for you at the Resurrection of the righteous."
"I have no silver or gold," Peter said, "but what I have, I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene-- walk!"
They not only did this, as we had expected, but first of all in obedience to God's will they gave their own selves to the Lord and to us.
Therefore you also must be ready; for it is at a time when you do not expect Him that the Son of Man will come.
Everything, therefore, be it what it may, that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for in this the Law and the Prophets are summed up.