7 Bible Verses about Destitutes
Most Relevant Verses
He will turn his attention to the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.
What [is] the benefit, my brothers, if someone says [that he] has faith but does not have works? That faith [is] not able to save him, [is it]? If a brother or a sister is poorly clothed and lacking food for the day, and one of you should say to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and {eat well}," but does not give them what is necessary for the body, what [is] the benefit?read more.
Thus also faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.
Folly is a joy to him who lacks {sense}, and a person of understanding {will walk upright}.
And the manager said to himself, 'What should I do, because my master is taking away the management from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
I was a youth, but I am [now] old; yet I have not seen [the] righteous forsaken or his children {begging for} bread.
and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins.
The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there [will be] nothing.
