The Poor

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

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

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

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

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.’”

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

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

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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.”

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. — read the full passage →

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

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

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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.

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

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

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

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?

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. — read the full passage →

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

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

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

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; — read the full passage →

“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. — read the full passage →

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.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; — read the full passage →

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

“‘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.

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? — read the full passage →

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. — read the full passage →

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;

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. — read the full passage →

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. — read the full passage →

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? — read the full passage →

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.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

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. — read the full passage →

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? says Yahweh.

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

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

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

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

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?”

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. — read the full passage →

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; — read the full passage →

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. — read the full passage →

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t judge the right of the needy.

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats. — read the full passage →

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. — read the full passage →

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

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; — read the full passage →

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

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.

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.’

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, — read the full passage →

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; — read the full passage →

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

neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?” — read the full passage →

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.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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

Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

All who believed were together, and had all things in common. — read the full passage →

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory is risen on you. — read the full passage →