60 Bible Verses About Helping the Poor

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

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.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the Lord.

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

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

Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

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.

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

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

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

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.

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

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

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

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

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

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

For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.

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

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:

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

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

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

And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

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

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

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.

Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

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

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.