Helping People
10 passages
- 1 John 3:17
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
Read it in context - Proverbs 19:17
Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
Read it in context - Isaiah 58:10
and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
Read it in context - Proverbs 22:9
A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Read it in context - 1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Read it in context - Luke 12:33–34
33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Read it in context - Proverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
Read it in context - James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Read it in context - Deuteronomy 15:7
If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
Read it in context - Philippians 2:4
Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
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