50 Bible Verses About the Poor

“You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.”

““You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.”

““‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.”

“If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;”

“For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.”

“Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.”

“They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.”

“There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,”

““If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,”

“so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.”

“For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.”

“All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?””

“But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.”

“Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.”

“But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.”

“He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.”

“For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.”

“He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.”

““Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.”

“Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.””

“Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.”

“For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.”

“who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.”

“He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.”

“He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.”

“He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.”

“He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.”

“Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;”

“One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.”

“The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.”

“Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.””

“She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.”

“Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.””

“to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!”

“For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.”

“Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?”

“Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’”

“I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.”

““Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.Isaiah 57:15; 66:2”

“for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.”

“I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’”

““Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?”

“But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.”

“In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’””

“how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.”

“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.”

“As it is written, “He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”Psalm 112:9”

“that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;”

“Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?”

“For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”Psalm 34:12-16”