7 Bible Verses about Destitutes
Most Relevant Verses
He has regarded the prayer of the destitute
And has not despised their prayer.
What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?read more.
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.
Folly is joy to him who lacks sense,
But a man of understanding walks straight.
The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
Or his descendants begging bread.
Let his children wander about and beg;
And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.
The sluggard does not plow after the autumn,
So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.