7 Bible Verses about Destitutes

He will pay attention to the prayer of the destitute
and will not despise their prayer.

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? read more.
In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.

Foolishness brings joy to one without sense,
but a man with understanding walks a straight path.

“Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig; I’m ashamed to beg.

I have been young and now I am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned
or his children begging for bread.

Let his children wander as beggars,
searching for food far from their demolished homes.

The slacker does not plow during planting season;
at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.