29 Bible Verses about Not Helping The Poor

He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he that has mercy on the poor, honours him.

Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he that is glad regarding the calamity of someone else shall not go unpunished.

He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches and who gives to the rich shall surely come to want.

A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

Thou shalt not do violence unto a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he is of thy brethren or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.

What do you mean that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.

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

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, and cut off the poor of the land,

Even in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; thou didst not find them in any trespass, but by all these things.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment:

If thou seest violence unto the poor and the extortion of rights and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for height is looking upon height; and there is one higher than they.

desiring that there be dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and to twist the way of the humble: and the man and his father have gone in unto the same maid, profaning my holy name:

For I have known of your many rebellions and your great sins that afflict the just and take a ransom and turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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

Thou didst strike through with his staffs the heads of his villages, who as a whirlwind attempted to scatter me; their pride was as to devour the poor secretly.

and do not oppress the widow nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag and would take from what was put therein.

What? Do ye not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the congregation of God and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, or lifts up his eyes to the idols, or makes an abomination,

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the afflicted and needy.

They are become fat; they shine; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they did not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless; with all this they made themselves prosperous; and they did not judge the cause of the poor.

Because he oppressed and forsook the poor; because he has violently taken away houses which he did not build,

They turn the needy out of the way; and all the poor of the earth hide themselves from them.

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

Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts?

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have done violence unto the poor and needy; they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.