100 Bible Verses About Charity

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,

And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.

The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.

Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:

Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.

And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s treasure house.

As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat offering.

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.

And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the Lord; gold, and silver, and brass,

In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.

But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

And the famine was sore in the land.

And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the Lord’s tribute was threescore and one.

Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:

And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.

And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them.

He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.

At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,