29 Bible Verses about Not Helping The Poor

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

Do not exploit the poor, because he is poor; and do not crush the needy in court;

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, do not marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins?you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

Do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

What, do you not have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's church, and put them to shame who do not have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In 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 wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, 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 bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they do not judge the right of the needy.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks."

But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.