137 Bible Verses about Helping Those in Need

For I was an hungered, and you gave me meat: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:Naked, and you clothed me: I was sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me.Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you an hungered, and fed you? or thirsty, and gave you drink?When saw we you a stranger, and took you in? or naked, and clothed you?Or when saw we you sick, or in prison, and came to you?And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it to me.

He that has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again.

And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness be as the noon day:

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

Bear you one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

He answers and said to them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has meat, let him do likewise.

Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed on the earth: and you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.The LORD will strengthen him on the bed of languishing: you will make all his bed in his sickness.

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.

But whoever has this world's good, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwells the love of God in him?My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.But when you do alms, let not your left hand know what your right hand does:That your alms may be in secret: and your Father which sees in secret himself shall reward you openly.

What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him?If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,And one of you say to them, Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body; what does it profit?Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.

But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

If there be among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother:But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wants.

The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.

But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully.Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

He that gives to the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh?

Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not you away.

For it has pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.It has pleased them truly; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal things.

Which executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners:The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous:The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

But when you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:And you shall be blessed; for they cannot recompense you: for you shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall not be to him as an usurer, neither shall you lay on him usury.If you at all take your neighbor's raiment to pledge, you shall deliver it to him by that the sun goes down:For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor.

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

A good man shows favor, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

And whoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh?

She stretches out her hand to the poor; yes, she reaches forth her hands to the needy.

Sell that you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts.For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Cast your bread on the waters: for you shall find it after many days.

For I mean not that other men be eased, and you burdened:But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.

Therefore all things whatever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

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

Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you mete with it shall be measured to you again.

And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the fruits thereof:But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie still; that the poor of your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard, and with your olive grove.

The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

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

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.

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

As every man has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill;That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled;Then you shall say before the LORD your God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away from the middle of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it to me.

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.But whoever has this world's good, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwells the love of God in him?My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Give to every man that asks of you; and of him that takes away your goods ask them not again.

And all that believed were together, and had all things common;And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

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

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, said the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffs at him.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart.Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in your law.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely you have received, freely give.

If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,And one of you say to them, Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body; what does it profit?

Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Now when Jesus heard these things, he said to him, Yet lack you one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your alms are come up for a memorial before God.

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causes through us thanksgiving to God.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him: because that for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Jesus said to him, If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not to know it.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.

You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.If you afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.

Why have we fasted, say they, and you see not? why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.

And the second is like to it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to them who are of the household of faith.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives and spares not.

You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is your neighbor's.

Remember me, O LORD, with the favor that you bore to your people: O visit me with your salvation;

But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.

Let brotherly love continue.Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

For you have 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.

O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.O give thanks to the God of gods: for his mercy endures for ever.O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endures for ever.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed on the earth: and you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

And whoever shall receive one such little child in my name receives me.

For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and him that has no helper.He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

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

He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

And he said, He that showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus to him, Go, and do you likewise.

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy to all them that call on you.

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was on them all.Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made to every man according as he had need.

Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh?Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.

There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty.

Look you on me, and be merciful to me, as you use to do to those that love your name.

Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keeps truth for ever:

He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill;

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yes, our God is merciful.The LORD preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

Your congregation has dwelled therein: you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for the poor.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered to him.

But whoever has this world's good, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwells the love of God in him?

Do good, O LORD, to those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.For it has pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.It has pleased them truly; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal things.

The king that faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

And said, Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.

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

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may edify another.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!It is like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

Brothers, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call on him as long as I live.

Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;Who satisfies your mouth with good things; so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.