Ezra 7:16-18

16 awith all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and bwith the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God that is in Jerusalem. 17With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and cyou shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem. 18Whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.

Acts 24:17

17Now dafter several years eI came to bring alms to fmy nation and to present gofferings.

3 John 6-8

6who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner hworthy of God. 7For they have gone out for the sake of ithe name, jaccepting nothing from the Gentiles. 8Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

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