What does the Bible say about being generous and giving to people in need when I have debts to pay?
If I have debts to pay, is it acceptable for me to be giving to people in need?
Matthew 5:42
NKJV - 42 Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.
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Cantrell Cantrell
8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.
“But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’
“In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
You cannot out give God. If you don't tithe you are robbing God. If you don't tithe cheerfully, then you are robbing yourself of God's blessing.