29 Bible Verses about Not Helping The Poor
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He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God.
Whoso laugheth the poor to scorn, blasphemeth his maker; and he that is glad of another man's hurt, shall not be unpunished.
Whoso doth a poor man wrong, to increase his own riches, and giveth unto the rich to please him, at the last cometh to poverty himself.
One poor man oppressing another by violence, is like a continual rain that destroyeth the fruit.
Thou shalt not defraud a hired servant that is needy and poor, whether he be of thy brethren or a stranger that is in thy land within thy cities.
Wherefore do ye oppress my people, and mar the faces of the innocents?" Thus shall the LORD God of Hosts revile them.
Forsomuch then as ye oppress the poor, and rob him of his best sustenance: therefore, where as ye have builded houses of square stone, ye shall not dwell in them. Marvelous pleasant vineyards shall ye plant; but the wine of them shall ye not drink. And why?
Hear this, O ye that oppress the poor, and destroy the needy in the lands, saying,
Upon thy wings is found the blood of poor and innocent people; and that not in corners and holes only, but openly in all these places.
See that thou rob not the poor because he is weak, and oppress not the simple in judgment;
If thou seest the poor to be oppressed and wrongfully dealt withal, so that equity and the right of the law is wrested in the land: marvel not thou at such judgment, for one great man keepeth touch with another, and the mighty help themselves together.
They tread upon poor men's heads, in the dust of the earth, and crook the ways of the meek. The son and the father go to the harlot, to dishonour my holy name,
As for the multitude of your wickednesses and your stout sins, I know them right well. Enemies are ye of the righteous; ye take rewards; ye oppress the poor in judgment.
We shall set up false weights, that we may get the poor under us with their money, and the needy also for shoes: yea let us sell the chaff for corn."
Thou didst strike through with his scepter, the heads of his plan people: which come as a stormy wind to scatter me abroad, and are glad when they may eat up the poor secretly.
Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."
This said he, not that he cared for the poor: but because he was a thief, and kept the bag, and bare that which was given.
Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or else despise ye the congregation of God? And shame them that have not? What shall I say unto you? Shall I praise you? In this praise I you not.
"When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain?
he grieveth the poor and needy; he robbeth and spoileth; he giveth not the debtor his pledge again; he lifteth up his eyes unto Idols, and meddle with abominable things;
Behold, the sins of thy sister Sodom, were these: Pride, fullness of meat, abundance and Idleness: these things had she and her daughters. Besides that, they reached not their hand to the poor and needy,
hereof are they fat and wealthy, and are run away from me with shameful blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity.
And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them.
that thrust the poor out of the way, and oppress the simple of the world together.
O hear this word, ye fat cows, that be upon the hill of Samaria; yea, that do poor men wrong, and oppress the needy; yea, that say to your lords, 'Bring hither, let us drink.'
But ye have despised the poor. Are not the rich they which oppress you: and they which draw you before judges?
The people in the land useth wicked extortion and robbery. They vex the poor and needy and oppress the stranger against right.
Timely in the morning do they arise, to murder the simple and poor, and in the night they go a stealing.
