What are some Bible verses about the poor?

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Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will repay them for their deed.

Proverbs 14:31

Whoever oppresses a poor person insults their Maker, but those who are generous to the needy honor Him.

Proverbs 22:9

Those who have a bountiful eye will be blessed, for they share their bread with the poor.

Proverbs 28:27

Those who give to the poor will not be in need, but those who hide their eyes will receive many curses.

Proverbs 29:7

A righteous person knows the rights of the poor; a wicked person does not understand such knowledge.

Proverbs 14:21

Whoever despises their neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is the one who is generous to the poor.

Luke 12:33-34

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Deuteronomy 15:11

For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore, I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

Proverbs 21:13

Those who close their ear to the cry of the poor will themselves call out and not be answered.

Matthew 19:21

Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you by His poverty might become rich.

Acts 20:35

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

Luke 14:12-

He also said to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not just invite your friends, brothers, relatives, or wealthy neighbors, for they may invite you back and you will be repaid. Instead, when you host a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, as they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Proverbs 22:22-23

Do not exploit the poor because they are poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the oppressed and will execute justice for the needy.

Deuteronomy 15:7-8

If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves in any of your towns within the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them. Rather, be openhanded and freely lend them whatever they need.

Matthew 5:42

Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

1 John 3:17

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?

Galatians 2:10

All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.

James 2:5

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?

Unless otherwise indicated, all Bible verses are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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