BIBLE VERSES ON THE POOR

Be blessed by these Bible verses on the poor:

Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.
Exodus 22:22

Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Exodus 23:6

Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:10

Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God.
Leviticus 19:14

He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:18

There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.
Deuteronomy 15:11

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap.
I Samuel 2:8

What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading. For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build.
Job 20:18-19

He does not keep the wicked alive but gives the afflicted their rights.
Job 36:6

But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction.
Job 36:15

The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
Psalm 9:9

For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.
Psalm 9:12

But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.
Psalm 9:18

You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor, but the Lord is their refuge.
Psalm 14:6

You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.
Psalm 35:10

The poor will see and be glad — you who seek God, may your hearts live!
Psalm 69:32

The Lord hears the needy and does not despise his captive people.
Psalm 69:33

The Lord protects the unwary; when I was brought low, he saved me.
Psalm 116:6

Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly; though lofty, he sees them from afar.
Psalm 138:6

He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry.
Psalm 146:7

The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
Psalm 146:9

Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker.
Proverbs 17:5

Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done.
Proverbs 19:17

Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.
Proverbs 21:13

Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court, for the Lord will take up their case and will exact life for life.
Proverbs 22:22-23

The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.
Proverbs 29:7

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:8-9

She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.
Proverbs 31:20

Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

Isaiah 1:17

You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress.
Isaiah 25:4

He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked.
Jeremiah 20:13

The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Matthew 25:40

He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble.
Luke 1:52

But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.
Luke 11:41

Sell your possessions and give to the poor.
Luke 12:33

But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.
Luke 14:13-14

Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.
Acts 10:4

God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor.
Acts 10:31

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.’
Acts 20:35

Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
Romans 12:13

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Romans 12:16

All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.
Galatians 2:10