50 Bible Verses about Helping The Poor

"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does,

I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

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

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

For you always have the poor with you; but you don't always have me.

"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

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

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. A Psalm by David.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."

Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

They only asked us to remember the poor -- which very thing I was also zealous to do.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.