Bible Verses about 'Helping the poor'
- Blessed are the poor in spirit,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. - The rich rules over the poor,
And the borrower is servant to the lender. - Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And plead the cause of the poor and needy. - The ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
But the poor does not hear rebuke. - Defend the poor and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and needy. - The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
He brings low and lifts up. - This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him,
And saved him out of all his troubles. - What is desired in a man is kindness,
And a poor man is better than a liar. - Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
- And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
- Because I delivered the poor who cried out,
The fatherless and the one who had no helper.
The blessing of a perishing man came upon me,
And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. - As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
- Thus says the Lord of hosts:
‘Execute true justice,
Show mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’ - The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed. - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound. - A good man deals graciously and lends;
He will guide his affairs with discretion. - He answered and said to them, “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”
- Our help is in the name of the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth. - I will lift up my eyes to the hills—
From whence comes my help?
My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth. - Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation, but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.
- Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
- God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble. - For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. - For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand,
Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’ - Behold, God is my helper;
The Lord is with those who uphold my life. - The Lord opens the eyes of the blind;
The Lord raises those who are bowed down;
The Lord loves the righteous. - But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.
- The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. - Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. - The memory of the righteous is blessed,
But the name of the wicked will rot. - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
- And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
- The Lord watches over the strangers;
He relieves the fatherless and widow;
But the way of the wicked He turns upside down. - By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. - The hope of the righteous will be gladness,
But the expectation of the wicked will perish. - And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
- But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
- “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
- Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
- The tongue of the righteous is choice silver;
The heart of the wicked is worth little. - Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
But violence covers the mouth of the wicked. - Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
- Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
- The vine has dried up,
And the fig tree has withered;
The pomegranate tree,
The palm tree also,
And the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are withered;
Surely joy has withered away from the sons of men. - The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
- Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
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