You can’t out give God. In fact, being generous in your giving is the only promise that God ask us to test him with. If you read Malachi 3:10, you can confirm this for yourself. Every where else in the Bible it warns to never test God, with exception to being generous. This is God’s challenge.
Here are our 11 favorite Bible Verses (all NIV version) about being generous and the promises from God. What a wonderful and generous God we serve!
1: A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. Proverbs 11:25
2: Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7
3: You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. 2 Corinthians 9:11
4: 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 to you. Luke 6:38
5: For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have. 2 Corinthians 8:12
6: Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice. Psalm 112:5
7: Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 2 Corinthians 9:10
8: Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Luke 6:30
9: He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Isaiah 40:29
10: If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. James 1:5
11: If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him! Luke 11:13