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Helping People

 

1 John 3:17 ESV / 141 helpful votes

 

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 140 helpful votes

 

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 138 helpful votes

 

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 114 helpful votes

 

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

1 John 4:11 ESV / 90 helpful votes

 

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 78 helpful votes

 

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.

Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 59 helpful votes

 

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

James 1:27 ESV / 58 helpful votes

 

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Deuteronomy 15:7 ESV / 57 helpful votes

 

“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

Philippians 2:4 ESV / 51 helpful votes

 

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 45 helpful votes

 

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

Acts 20:35 ESV / 43 helpful votes

 

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.’”

Matthew 5:13-16 ESV / 41 helpful votes

 

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 40 helpful votes

 

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 38 helpful votes

 

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 35 helpful votes

 

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 35 helpful votes

 

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.’

Luke 6:38 ESV / 32 helpful votes

 

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes

 

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 31 helpful votes

 

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...