50 Bible Verses about Helping The Poor

"If I have withheld [the] desire of [the] poor from [them], or I have caused [the] widow's eyes to fail,

because I saved [the] needy who cried for help, and [I saved] [the] orphan for whom [there was] no helper.

He judged [the] legal cause of [the] needy and [the] poor, [and] then it was well. {Is that not what it means to know me}?" {declares} Yahweh.

He who lends to Yahweh [is] he who is kind to the poor, and his benefits he will repay to him.

Blessed [is the one who] has regard for [the] poor; in [the] day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him.

to guide [the] needy away from legal claims, and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans.

Now in Joppa there was a certain female disciple {named} Tabitha (which translated means "Dorcas"). She was full of good deeds and charitable giving which she was constantly doing.

But you, [when you] practice charitable giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

I [was] a father to the poor, and I investigated {the stranger's} legal dispute.

For the poor will not cease to be {among you} [in] the land; therefore I [am] commanding you, {saying}, 'You shall willingly open your hand to your brother, to your needy and to your poor [that are] in your land.'

Therefore whenever you practice charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet in front of you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be praised by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!

He who closes his ear from the cry of the poor, he also will cry out and not be heard.

If [there] is a poor [person] among you from [among] one of your brothers in one of your {towns} that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, and you shall not shut your hand toward {your brother who is poor}.

[Is it] not to break your bread for the hungry? You must bring {home} [the] poor, [the] homeless. When you see [the] naked, you must cover him, and you must not hide yourself from your {relatives}.

for [the] needy shall not always be forgotten; the hope of the poor shall never perish.

Indeed he will deliver [the] needy [who is] crying for help, and [the] afflicted [who] has no helper.

For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.

But he protects [the] needy from misery, and he makes [their] families like a flock.

May he provide justice [for the] poor of [the] people, save [the] children of [the] needy, and crush [the] oppressor.

[For] he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking, but [for] he who turns his eyes, [there are] many curses.

He who oppresses the poor [in order] to enrich himself, [or] gives to the rich, {will come to poverty}.

He will take pity on [the] helpless and needy, and [the] lives of [the] needy he will save.

Rich and poor have [much] in common; Yahweh is the maker of all of them.

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

Judge [on behalf of the] helpless and [the] orphan; provide justice [to the] afflicted and [the] poor.

But I [am] poor and needy. Let my Lord consider me. You [are] my help and my deliverer. O my God, do not delay.

for I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

I know that Yahweh will maintain [the] cause of [the] afflicted, [and] justice for [the] needy.

Rescue [the] helpless and [the] needy; deliver [them] from the hand of [the] wicked."

so that [they] cause [the] cry of distress from [the] helpless to come to him, and he hears [the] cry of distress from [the] needy,

"Because of [the] oppression of [the] afflicted, because of [the] groaning of [the] poor, now I will rise up," Yahweh says. "I shall put [them] in [the] safety [for which] they long."

"Blessed [are] the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Her palm she opens to the poor, and her hand she reaches [out] to the needy.

(Now he said this not because {he was concerned} about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, he used to steal what was put into [it].)

And I will leave in your midst a people afflicted and poor, and they shall take refuge in the name of Yahweh.

But I [am] poor and needy; O God hasten to me. You [are] my help and my deliverer. O Yahweh, do not delay.

for he stands at [the] right [hand] of [the] needy, to save [him] from those judging his life.

Learn to do good! Seek justice! Rescue [the] oppressed! Defend [the] orphan! Plead for [the] widow!

{Take care} so that there will not be {a thought of wickedness} in your heart, {saying}, 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' {and you view your needy neighbor with hostility}, and [so] you [do] not give to him, and he might cry [out] against you to Yahweh, and {you would incur guilt against yourself}.

The wealth of the rich [is] the city of his strength; the ruin of the poor [is] their poverty.

He who oppresses the poor insults him who made him, but he who has mercy on the poor honors him.

He will drink and forget his poverty, and his misery he will not remember [any] more.

[They asked] only that we should remember the poor, the very thing I was also eager to do.

He who despises his neighbor is a sinner, but he who has mercy on the poor blesses him.

Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate;

And if I parcel out all my possessions, and if I hand over my body in order that I will be burned, but do not have love, it benefits [me] nothing.

But give [as] charitable giving the things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.

and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your charitable deeds have been remembered before God.