Helping the Poor
10 passages
- Proverbs 19:17
Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
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 - Proverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
Read it in context - Deuteronomy 15:11
For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
Read it in context - Proverbs 28:27
Whoever gives to the poor will not be in need, but he who hides his eyes will receive many curses.
Read it in context - Galatians 2:10
They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Read it in context - Proverbs 21:13
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
Read it in context - Acts 20:35
In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Read it in context - Matthew 5:42
Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
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.
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