29 Bible Verses about Not Helping The Poor
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He who presses the poor curses his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the poor.
Whoever scorns the poor reviles his Maker; he who is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.
A poor man who crushes the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, of your brothers, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates.
What do you mean? You crush My people and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.
So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of carved stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.
Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,
Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; I did not find them by breaking in, but on all these.
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor press down the afflicted in the gate;
If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.
panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father will go in to the same woman, to defile My holy name.
For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor 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 the head of his warriors with his shafts; they storm out to scatter me; their rejoicing is to devour the meek in a secret place.
And do not crush the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, of a man against his brother.
He said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and held the moneybag and carried the things put in.
For do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? I do not praise you!
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
has ill-treated the poor and needy; thieving, he stole; has not given back 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 bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.
For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.
They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Hear this Word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink.
But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats?
The people of the land have used oppression and practiced robbery, and they have troubled the poor and needy. Yea, they have oppressed the stranger without right.
The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is a thief.
