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Alms Given in Secret

Name: Alms Given in Secret
Brand: GoodSalt
SKU: smdas0127
Price: 3.95 USD
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A well-dressed woman quietly slips away through an open doorway after hanging a basket of bread and provisions on the handle for a seated mother holding her small child. The humble room, pail, broom, and worn furnishings frame the contrast between need and mercy, while the donor’s turned face and retreating posture emphasize hidden charity rather than public praise.

The scene reflects Jesus’ teaching on giving alms in secret: mercy offered before God, not performed for human applause. It also speaks to Christian care for widows, children, the hungry, and the poor, making the artwork especially fitting for themes of benevolence ministry, food pantry outreach, compassion, and practical discipleship.

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Keywords	almsgiving benevolence Christian charity hidden giving mother and child
Secondary Keywords	basket of bread compassion food assistance humble home mercy ministry open door secret charity widow care
Tertiary Keywords	christian service discipleship doorway need outreach poor relief provisions social ministry works of mercy
Scriptures	1 John 3:17-18 James 1:27 Matthew 25:35-40 Matthew 6:1-4 Proverbs 19:17 1 John 3 17 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. James 1 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. Matthew 25 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ Matthew 6 1 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. Proverbs 19 17 Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.

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Alms Given in Secret

1 John 3

James 1

Matthew 25

Matthew 6

Proverbs 19

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