6 Bible Verses about Destitutes
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What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation? If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food, And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?read more.
Even so faith without works is dead.
Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.
And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.
I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.
Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.