7 Bible Verses about Destitutes
Most Relevant Verses
He has respected the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their prayer.
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith but he does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothes and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them: Go in peace, be warmed and filled; and yet you do not give them food and clothing, what good is it?read more.
Even so, faith without works is dead. It is alone and by itself!
Folly is joy to the destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walks uprightly.
The servant thought: 'I am fired from my job. What shall I do? I am not strong enough for heavy work and I am ashamed to beg.
I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.
Let his children wander around and beg. Let them seek help far from their ruined homes.
The lazy man will not plow because of the cold. He will beg during harvest and have nothing.