21 Bible Verses about Poor People

Whoso is lending to Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.

only when there is no needy one with thee, for Jehovah doth greatly bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance to possess it.

for the poor always ye have with you, and me ye have not always;

for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;

for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'

Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!

Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich are many.

For what advantage is to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

With supplications doth the poor speak, And the rich answereth fierce things.

For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.

And I -- I said, 'Surely these are poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

'And if he is poorer than thy valuation, then he hath presented himself before the priest, and the priest hath valued him; according to that which the hand of him who is vowing doth reach doth the priest value him.

'And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

'And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with thee attaineth riches, and thy brother with him hath become poor, and he hath been sold to a sojourner, a settler with thee, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,

A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.

And I said, 'Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --

for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,

Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.