The scribes and Pharisees tithe mint, anise, and cummin, but have left undone justice, mercy, and faith; Jesus says they ought to have done these and not left the other undone.

The Pharisees tithe mint, rue, and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God; they ought to have done the tithing and not left the other undone.

In the temple-prayer parable, the Pharisee says he gives tithes of all that he gets.

Abraham gave Melchizedek a tenth of the chief spoils; Levitical priests have commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law; through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes.

If perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (under which the people received the law), another priest after Melchizedek’s order would not be needed; the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

Collectors of the half-shekel ask whether Jesus pays it; he says the sons are free, but lest they cause them to stumble has Peter take a shekel from a fish’s mouth and pay for both of them.

Jesus casts out those who sold and bought in the temple, overthrows the money-changers’ tables, and says they have made God’s house a den of robbers / a house of merchandise.

A man may declare to father or mother that what would have profited them is Corban (given to God), and then is not allowed to do anything for them; Jesus says this tradition makes void the word of God.

Jesus watches gifts cast into the temple treasury; a poor widow casts in two mites, all her living, which he says is more than the rich have cast in.

The chief priests will not put Judas’s silver into the treasury because it is the price of blood; they buy the potter’s field with it.

Joseph and Mary present Jesus at Jerusalem and offer a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons, as said in the law of the Lord.

The Jerusalem elders tell Paul to purify himself with four men under a vow and be at charges for them; he does so until the offering is offered for every one of them.

Paul tells Felix that after some years he came to bring alms to his nation, and offerings, and that they found him purified in the temple.

The twelve are sent without gold, silver, or brass in their purses; they received freely so they must give freely; the laborer is worthy of his food; they are to abide in a worthy house.

The twelve are to take no bread, wallet, or money, and to stay in a house that receives them until they leave that place.

The twelve are sent with no staff, wallet, bread, or money, and told to abide in whatever house they enter.

The seventy are sent with no purse, to remain in one house eating and drinking what they are given, because the laborer is worthy of his hire.

As Jesus and the twelve go preaching, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna, and many other women minister unto them of their substance.

Women who had followed Jesus from Galilee ministered unto him.

When he sent them forth without purse, wallet, and shoes, they lacked nothing; he now tells them to take a purse and a wallet.

Judas had the bag and took what was put therein; those at the table assumed Jesus told him to buy what they needed for the feast or to give something to the poor.

The church brings Paul, Barnabas, and certain others on their way to Jerusalem.

After Lydia and her household are baptized, she constrains Paul and his company to come into her house and abide there.

When Apollos is minded to pass over into Achaia, the brethren encourage him and write to the disciples to receive him.

After healings on Melita, the islanders put on board such things as they needed when they sailed.

Paul hopes, when he goes to Spain, to be brought on his way thitherward by the Roman believers.

Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, is to be received worthily of the saints and assisted in whatsoever matter she may have need; she has been a helper of many and of Paul.

Apostles have a right to eat and drink, to lead about a believing wife, and to forbear working; the soldier does not serve at his own charges; the ox is not to be muzzled; they that minister about sacred things eat of the temple, and they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar; even so the Lord ordained that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

The Corinthians are to set Paul forward on his journey, and likewise Timothy in peace.

Paul preached the gospel of God for nought at Corinth; he took wages of other churches that he might minister there; brethren from Macedonia supplied his want.

Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

Epaphroditus is the Philippians’ messenger and minister to Paul’s need; he came nigh unto death supplying what was lacking in their service toward Paul.

The Philippians, uniquely among churches, had fellowship with Paul in giving and receiving, sending once and again unto his need; he received from Epaphroditus the things they sent, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

Titus is to set forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey so that nothing be wanting unto them; the people are to maintain good works for necessary uses.

Gaius does a faithful work toward brethren and strangers who went forth for the Name, taking nothing of the Gentiles; he is to set them forward worthily of God, that the church may be fellow-workers for the truth.

Diotrephes will not receive the brethren, forbids those who would, and casts them out of the church.

Those taught in the word are to share all good things with the one who teaches (listed also under missionary support).

The brethren are to know those who labor among them and are over them in the Lord, and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work’s sake.

The bishop must be given to hospitality and no lover of money; deacons must not be greedy of filthy lucre.

Elders that rule well are counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching, because scripture says not to muzzle the ox and that the laborer is worthy of his hire.

The bishop, as God’s steward, must not be greedy of filthy lucre, but given to hospitality; unruly teachers overthrow houses, teaching things they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

Elders are to tend the flock, exercising the oversight not of constraint but willingly, according to the will of God, nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind.

All who believed had all things common, sold possessions and goods, and parted them to all according as any man had need.

None said any of the things he possessed was his own; those with lands or houses sold them, laid the prices at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made according as any had need; Barnabas sold a field and brought the money.

Ananias and Sapphira sold a possession, kept back part of the price while laying a part at the apostles’ feet, and died after Peter charged them with lying to God about the gift; Peter says that while it remained it was their own, and after it was sold it was in their power.

Grecian widows were neglected in the daily ministration, so seven men are appointed over serving tables that the apostles may not forsake the word of God.

The disciples, every man according to his ability, send famine relief to the brethren in Judæa, delivering it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

He that giveth is to do it with liberality; they are to communicate to the necessities of the saints and be given to hospitality.

Paul is going to Jerusalem ministering unto the saints; Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem; having partaken of their spiritual things, the Gentiles owe it to minister unto them in carnal things; he asks prayer that this ministration may be acceptable.

Concerning the collection for the saints, as in Galatia: each is to lay by in store on the first day of the week as he may prosper, and approved men will carry the bounty to Jerusalem.

The Macedonian churches, in deep poverty, gave of their own accord beyond their power for the fellowship in ministering to the saints; Corinth is to complete this grace according as a man hath; the aim is equality, their abundance a supply for others’ want; Titus and a brother appointed by the churches administer the bounty so that no one should blame them in the matter.

Achaia has been prepared a year; the aforepromised bounty is to be ready as bounty, not as extortion; he that soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully; each is to give as he hath purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver; this ministration fills up the wants of the saints and brings thanksgivings.

The Jerusalem pillars asked only that Paul and Barnabas remember the poor, which he was also zealous to do.

Honor widows that are widows indeed; children and grandchildren are to requite their parents; anyone who does not provide for his own household has denied the faith; no widow under sixty is enrolled; if a believing woman has widows she is to relieve them and not burden the church, that it may relieve widows indeed.

God is not unrighteous to forget their work and the love they showed toward his name, in that they ministered unto the saints and still do minister.

Forget not to do good and to communicate, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Pure religion is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

If a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, and one says be warmed and filled yet gives them not the things needful to the body, it profits nothing.

Whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, the love of God does not abide in him; love is to be in deed and truth.

Paul abides with Aquila and Priscilla and they work, for by their trade they were tentmakers.

Paul tells the Ephesian elders he coveted no man’s silver, gold, or apparel; his own hands ministered to his necessities and to those with him; by so laboring they ought to help the weak, remembering that it is more blessed to give than to receive.

The apostles hunger, thirst, are naked, are buffeted, have no certain dwelling-place, and toil, working with their own hands.

Paul did not use this right lest he hinder the gospel; he has used none of these things and is not writing that they should be done in his case; his reward is to preach the gospel without charge.

Their only inferiority to other churches was that he was not a burden; he will spend and be spent for their souls; neither he nor Titus took advantage of them.

They were never found using a cloak of covetousness, nor seeking glory of men, though they might have claimed authority as apostles; they worked night and day that they might not burden any while they preached.

They did not eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but worked night and day so as not to burden anyone, not because they lacked the right, but to make themselves an ensample; if any will not work, neither let him eat.

The scribes devour widows’ houses and for a pretence make long prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation.

The Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup, but within are full of extortion.

Simon offered the apostles money for the power to confer the Holy Spirit; Peter said his silver would perish with him because he thought to obtain the gift of God with money.

They are not as the many, corrupting the word of God, but speak in sincerity as of God.

Paul says they bear with a man if he bringeth them into bondage, devourth them, taketh them captive, exalteth himself, or smiteth them on the face.

Some suppose that godliness is a way of gain; godliness with contentment is great gain; having food and covering they shall be therewith content; they that are minded to be rich fall into a snare; the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

Onesiphorus often refreshed Paul, was not ashamed of his chain, and ministered in many things at Ephesus.

In covetousness false teachers shall with feigned words make merchandise of you; they have a heart exercised in covetousness and followed the way of Balaam, who loved the hire of wrong-doing.

If any comes and brings not this teaching, receive him not into your house and give him no greeting; he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.

They ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire; they are hidden rocks in the love-feasts, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; they show respect of persons for the sake of advantage.

Give to him that asketh; give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over.

When thou doest alms, do not sound a trumpet as the hypocrites do; do alms in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.

He that hath two coats is to impart to him that hath none, and he that hath food is to do likewise.

Give for alms those things which are within, and all things are clean unto you.

Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens.

When making a dinner, bid the poor, maimed, lame, and blind, who cannot recompense.

The rich man is told to sell what he has and give / distribute unto the poor, and he shall have treasure in heaven.

Zacchæus says he gives half of his goods to the poor and, if he has wrongfully exacted aught, restores fourfold.

The King treats feeding the hungry, giving drink, taking in the stranger, clothing the naked, and visiting the sick and imprisoned as done unto him.

Some object that costly ointment might have been sold and given to the poor; Jesus says they have the poor always with them.

Tabitha (Dorcas) was full of good works and almsdeeds; widows show the coats and garments she had made.

Cornelius gave much alms to the people; an angel says those alms have gone up for a memorial before God.

If an enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink.

If one bestows all his goods to feed the poor, but has not love, it profits him nothing.

Let him that stole steal no more, but labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

The rich in this present world are charged not to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to distribute, willing to communicate.

As they have opportunity they are to work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

A gift at the altar is to be left until one is reconciled to one’s brother, then offered.

No man can serve two masters; ye cannot serve God and mammon.

The cleansed leper is to offer the gift Moses commanded.

Whoever receives a prophet or gives a disciple a cup of water in that name shall not lose his reward.

The centurion is said to be worthy because he loves the nation and himself built them their synagogue.

The unrighteous steward is told as a lesson about faithfulness in unrighteous mammon; the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, scoffed.

A rich man who fared sumptuously left Lazarus unfed at his gate.

The common bag is assumed to cover feast supplies or gifts to the poor (also listed under missionary support).

A lame man at the Beautiful Gate asked alms; Peter said he had no silver or gold and healed him instead.

Tribute and custom are paid to civil rulers as ministers of God’s service (civil tax, not church support).

Gaius is host of Paul and of the whole church.

Paul’s choice to preach without charge is the counterpart of the right in 1 Corinthians 9:14 (see self-support).

At their assembly one is hungry and another drunken; Paul asks whether they despise the church of God and put to shame them that have not.

The collection is grounded in Christ’s grace: though rich, he became poor, that they through his poverty might become rich.

Show love unto strangers; remember them that are in bonds; be free from the love of money, content with such things as ye have.

Use hospitality one to another without murmuring.

Paul asks that a lodging be prepared for him.

The hire of the laborers who mowed the fields, kept back by fraud, crieth out (ordinary wage fraud, not church finance).