29 Bible Verses about Not Helping The Poor

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.

"You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.

What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?"

You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.

do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart."

He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.

What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.

"If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.

They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)

"Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring, that we may drink!'

But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.

The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.