25 Bible Verses About Helping The Poor (NIV)
This is a hand-curated and ranked list of the most relevant Bible verses about Helping The Poor (NIV). Verses are ranked by number of votes.
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Bible Verses About Helping The Poor
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Proverbs 19:17
17 He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward him for what he has done.
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Proverbs 22:9
9 A generous man will himself be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.
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Proverbs 14:31
31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
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Deuteronomy 15:11
11 There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.
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Proverbs 28:27
27 He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses.
1670
Galatians 2:10
10 All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
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Proverbs 21:13
13 If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered.
1609
Acts 20:35
35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
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Matthew 5:42
42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
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Proverbs 14:21
21 He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who is kind to the needy.
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James 1:27
27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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Deuteronomy 15:7-8
7 If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother. 8 Rather be openhanded and freely lend him whatever he needs.
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1 John 3:17
17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
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Luke 14:12-14
12 Then Jesus said to his host, "When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."
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Isaiah 58:10
10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.
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Proverbs 29:7
7 The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.
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Luke 12:33-34
33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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Luke 6:38
38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
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Proverbs 31:8-9
8 "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. 9 Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy." Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character
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Proverbs 22:22-23
22 Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court, 23 for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them.
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Psalm 140:12
12 I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.
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Matthew 19:21
21 Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
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2 Corinthians 8:9
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
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Luke 3:11
11 John answered, "The man with two tunics should share with him who has none, and the one who has food should do the same."
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1 John 3:17-18
17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
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