64 Bible Verses about Beggars

The king of Israel walked by on the city wall when a woman cried out: Help me, Your Majesty!

The servant thought: 'I am fired from my job. What shall I do? I am not strong enough for heavy work and I am ashamed to beg.

When the seven years ended she returned to Israel. She went to the king to ask that her house and her land be restored to her. The king was talking with Gehazi, Elisha's servant, when she found him. The king wanted to know about Elisha's miracles. Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought a dead person back to life. The woman made her appeal to the king. Gehazi said to him: Your Majesty, here is the woman and here is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!

I call my slave, but he does not answer, even when I beg him.

They force the needy to yield the road. The poor of the earth all hide themselves. Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their toil. They search in the wasteland food for their young.

When the ear heard, it commended me, and when the eye saw, it approved. This is because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.

I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.

Let his children wander around and beg. Let them seek help far from their ruined homes.

The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink. The young children cry out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

But now I beg you, forgive my sin and return with me, so that I can worship Jehovah.

The woman from Tekoa came to the king. She immediately bowed down with her face touching the ground. Help me, Your Majesty, she said.

Once more the king sent an officer with fifty men. He went up the hill, fell on his knees in front of Elijah, and pleaded: Man of God, be merciful to my men and me. Spare our lives!

I go about mourning without comfort. I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

So the servant fell on his face out of respect. He said: 'Lord, give me time to make payment and I will pay everything.' Being moved with pity, the lord let him go, and made him free of the debt. Then that servant met another servant who was in debt to him for one hundred denarii. He took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay your debt now.'read more.
That servant fell down before him, saying, 'Give me time and I will make payment to you.' He would not give him time. He put him into prison till he paid the debt. When the other servants saw what happened, they were very sad. They told their lord what had been done. His lord sent for him, and said: 'Evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me.

They arrived at Jericho. He left there with his disciples and a large crowd. A blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the side of the road.

He came closer to Jericho where a blind man sat begging by the side or the road.

A poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, used to be brought to the rich man's door. He hoped he could eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Then the dogs would come and lick his sores.

The neighbors saw him afterwards. They knew he was a blind beggar. So they asked: Is this he who sat and begged?

A man who had been crippled from birth was carried to the gate of the temple called Beautiful. There he begged for handouts from those who entered the temple. Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple he begged from them.

Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke? Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into the house? When you see the naked, should you cover him and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

The poor are always with you, but I am not always with you.

You always have the poor with you and you can do them good. You do not always have me.

You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.

There will always be some Israelites who are poor and needy. That is why I am commanding you to be generous with them.

When you help the poor (needy) (lowly) (depressed) you lend to Jehovah. He will pay you back.

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he also will cry, but will not be heard.

He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed for he gives of his bread to the poor.

He who gives to the poor will not lack. But he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

Open your mouth and judge righteously. Plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Do not oppress the widow. Do not oppress the fatherless. Do not oppress the stranger and do not oppress the poor. And you should not devise evil in your heart against your brother.

Give to those who ask. Lend to those who borrow.

Give to every one who asks of you and do not demand back your goods from he who takes from you.

Jesus then replied: If you wish to be complete, go sell your possessions and give the money to the poor. You will have wealth in heaven. Then follow me!

Jesus lovingly looked at him and said: You lack one thing. Go, sell your possessions and give to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me.

When Jesus heard it he said to him, You lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me.

Sell your possessions and give to charity. Make yourselves purses that do not get old, a treasure in heaven where moth and rest cannot corrupt and thieves cannot steal.

When you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

Time went by and the king of Egypt died. The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves. So they cried out, and their cries for help went up to God.

they cried out to me for help. I put darkness between them and the Egyptians. I made the sea come rolling over the Egyptians and drown them. You know what I did to Egypt. You lived in the desert a long time.

Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he ruled the people of Israel with cruelty and violence for twenty years. The people of Israel cried out to Jehovah for help.

Israel was helpless against them.

Asa prayed: Jehovah, only you can help a powerless army defeat a stronger one. We depend on you to help us. We will fight against this powerful army to honor your name! We know that you will not be defeated. You are Jehovah our God. Do not let man prevail against you.

Then I said, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I plead with you: how can Jacob stand? After all he is small.

I called on Jehovah in my distress. I cried to my God for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help reached his ears.

After David had everyone counted, he felt guilty and told Jehovah: What I did was stupid and terribly wrong. Jehovah, please forgive me.

David said to God: I have committed a terrible sin in doing this! Please forgive me. I have acted foolishly.

Hear the voice of my prayer when I call to you for help, when I lift my hands [in prayer] toward your most holy place.

He said: I called to Jehovah because of my affliction. And he answered me! Out of the belly of the grave I cried and you heard my voice.

How long, O Jehovah (YHWH), will I call for help and you do not hear? I cry out to you, save me from violence! And yet you do not save.

The rich man said: I beg you, father Abraham, send Lazarus to my father's house.

When the men of that place heard the news about Jesus they told everyone in the country. The sick were taken to him. They wanted to touch his robe to be made well.

When he entered a village or city in the marketplaces or the country the sick tried to touch the border of his garment and be healed.

The demons pleaded with him: If you cast us out, send us into the herd of swine!

They pleaded with Jesus: Send us into the pigs!

There was a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain. They entreated him that he would allow them to enter into them. He gave them permission.

A woman of Canaan came crying and saying: Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.

The woman was a Greek Syrophoenician by race. She wanted him to drive out the demon out of her daughter.

They brought a deaf man with an impediment in his speech to him and asked him to lay his hands on him.

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he cried: Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me!

One time while he was in one of the cities a man full of leprosy fell on his face before Jesus. He said: Lord, if you want to you can make me clean.

A man with leprosy knelt in front of Jesus and begged to be healed. If you want to, you can make me well, he said.

When he saw Jesus he cried out and fell down in front of him. He shouted in a loud voice: What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I implore you do not torment me.

A man in the crowd cried, Teacher, please look at my son. He is my only child. A spirit controls him and suddenly he cries out. He foams at the mouth. It throws him into convulsions and he is badly bruised. I asked your disciples to cast it out and they could not.

He heard that Jesus came from Judea into Galilee. He went to him and urged him to come see his son. His son was near death.