29 Bible Verses about Not Helping The Poor

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; but he that honoureth Him is gracious to the needy.

Whoso mocketh a poor man reproacheth his Maker; he that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent.

He that oppresseth the poor, it is to enrich him; he that giveth to the rich, bringeth only to want.

A poor man who oppresseth the helpless is a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates:

What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

Forasmuch, therefore, as ye trample upon the poor, and take from him presents of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, and ye shall not drink the wine of them.

Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,

Yea, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor, whom thou didst not encounter breaking in, but it is found upon all these.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name.

For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the right of the needy in the gate.

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.

Thou didst strike through with his own spears the head of his leaders: They came out as a whirlwind to scatter me, Whose exulting was as to devour the afflicted secretly.

and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into it.

Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this point I do not praise.

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

hath oppressed the poor and needy, exercised robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, committed abomination,

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge.

For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink:

But ye have despised the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do not they drag you before the tribunals?

The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully.

The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.