What Does the Bible Say About Charity Begins At Home?

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, ...

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Romans 12:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Jeremiah 6:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

James 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

10 Bible Verses about Charity Begins At Home

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 12:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 6:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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10 Bible Verses about Charity Begins At Home

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1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 12:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 6:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote