50 Bible Verses about Helping The Poor

If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy man, then it was well. Was not this to know me? says LORD.

He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.

Blessed is he who considers a poor man. LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Now at Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which, being translated, is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charities that she did.

But when thou do charity, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does,

I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall surely open thy hand to thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.

When therefore thou do charity, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.

If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother,

Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?

For a needy man shall not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.

For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.

For ye always have the poor with you, and whenever ye may desire ye can do them well, but ye do not always have me.

Yet he sets a needy man on high from affliction, and makes [him] families like a flock.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the sons of the needy, and will break in pieces the oppressor.

He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes shall have many a curse.

He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, [and] he who gives to a rich man, [comes] only to want.

He will have pity on a poor and needy man, and he will save the souls of the needy.

The rich and the poor meet together. LORD is the maker of them all.

For ye always have the poor with you, but ye do not always have me.

Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man.

But I am poor and needy, [yet] LORD thinks upon me. Thou are my help and my deliverer. Make no delay, O my God.

for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

I know that LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted man, and justice for the needy.

Rescue the poor and needy man. Deliver from the hand of the wicked man.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted.

Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, because the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

She stretches out her hand to the poor, yea, she reaches forth her hands to the needy.

Now he said this, not because it was a concern to him about the poor, but because he was a thief, and he had the purse and removed things that were put in.

But I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall take refuge in the name of LORD.

But I am poor and needy. Make haste to me, O God. Thou are my help and my deliverer, O LORD. Delay thou not.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Beware that there not be a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nothing, and he cry to LORD against thee, and it be

The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

Let him drink, and forget his need, and remember his misery no more.

only that we should remember the poor, which this same thing I also was eager to do.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor, happy is he.

Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.

And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing.

But give compassion, things that are inside, and behold, all things are clean to you.

And he says, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy charities are remembered before God.