29 Bible Verses about Not Helping The Poor
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He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.
Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to poverty.
A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.
You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brethren, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:
What do you mean that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord GOD of hosts.
Since therefore you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Also on your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but plainly upon all these things.
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for the high official is watched by a higher one; and there are yet higher ones over them.
That trample on the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maiden, to defile my holy name:
For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
You did thrust through with his own arrows the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was like devouring the poor secretly.
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put therein.
What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Has oppressed the poor and needy, has robbed by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
They have grown fat, they shine: yea, they pass over the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not defend.
Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he built not;
They drive the needy off the road: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judges?
The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have oppressed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
