Almsgiving to the Poor ▪︎ Give while you Can (Scripture) 🫳🏼 An angel once said to me, give while you can..! 🫳🏼 The Preaching of Peter (Apocryphal New Testament) Peter: "Rich is he that has mercy on many, and he that, imitating God, gives of that he has. For God has given all things unto all, of his own creatures. Understand then, you rich, that you ought to minister [give], for you have received more than you yourselves need. Learn that others lack the things you have in superfluity. Be ashamed to keep things that belong to others. Imitate the fairness (equality) of God, and no man will be poor." 🫳🏼 The Acts of Thomas 85 (Apocryphal New Testament) "Become well-pleasing unto God in all good things, in meekness and quietness: for these doth God spare, and granteth eternal life and setteth death at nought. And in gentleness which followeth on all good things, and overcometh all enemies and alone receiveth the crown of victory: with gentleness, and stretching out of the hand to the poor, and supplying the want of the needy, and distributing to them that are in necessity, especially them that walk in holiness. For this is chosen before God and leadeth unto eternal life..." 🫳🏼 Didache 4:5-8 (Apocryphal New Testament) The Apostles: "Be not one who stretches out his hands to receive, but shuts them when it comes to giving. Of whatsoever you have gained by your hands you shall give a ransom for your sins. You shall not hesitate to give, nor shall you grumble when you give, for you shall know who is the good Paymaster of the reward. You shall not turn away the needy, but shall share everything with your brother, and shall not say that it is your own, for if you are sharers in the imperishable, how much more in the things which perish...?" 🫳🏼 The Second Epistle of Clement 16 (Apocryphal New Testament) "Good, then, is alms [giving to the poor] as repentance from sin..." 🫳🏼 A fragment from 'Epistle to the Laodiceans' (Apocryphal New Testament) "Almsgiving [giving to the poor]... putteth out all sins..." 🫳🏼 Sirach 4:6 (Deuterocanonical Old Testament) "Don't turn your back on a poor person or give him any reason to curse you. If he becomes so bitter that he does curse you, his Creator will hear his prayer..." 🫳🏼 Proverbs 28:27 (Canonical Old Testament) "Give to the poor and you will never be in need. If you close your eyes to the poor, many people will curse you..." 🫳🏼 Proverbs 22:2 (Canonical Old Testament) "The rich and the poor have this in common, The LORD is the maker of them all..." 🫳🏼 Acts 10:30-31 (Canonical New Testament) Cornelius: "Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, and said, Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your alms [giving to the poor] are had in remembrance in the sight of God..." 🫳🏼 Luke 16:9 (Canonical New Testament) Jesus: "I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings [heavenly houses]..." 🫳🏼 Matthew 6:19-21 (Canonical New Testament) Jesus: "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also..." Read the Full Post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EBBwEebhj/ #Almsgiving