The poor matters to GOD...

Good News For The Poor

 

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

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

Luke 4:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

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

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 10 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 12:33 ESV / 9 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.

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

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

Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

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

James 2:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

James 1:27 ESV / 8 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.

Luke 7:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

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

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

Leviticus 19:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Luke 14:12-14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

Matthew 19:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Jeremiah 22:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.

Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 7 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,

Psalm 12:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 6 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.

Jeremiah 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

They have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

Isaiah 41:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Isaiah 29:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Psalm 140:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

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

Deuteronomy 24:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

“You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.

Deuteronomy 15:7 ESV / 6 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,

Deuteronomy 10:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

Leviticus 25:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

Exodus 23:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

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 beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

Exodus 23:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.

Galatians 2:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

Acts 24:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.

Luke 18:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Luke 14:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

Mark 14:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.

Ezekiel 22:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.

Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 5 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 31:8-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Proverbs 17:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Psalm 146:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;

Psalm 109:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.

Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

Psalm 72:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!

Psalm 40:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!

Psalm 35:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

1 Samuel 2:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.

Deuteronomy 15:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess—

Deuteronomy 14:28-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

“At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

Leviticus 23:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”

Leviticus 19:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 22:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

1 John 3:17-18 ESV / 4 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? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 4 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?

James 2:2-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?

1 Timothy 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Honor widows who are truly widows.

Acts 10:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

Acts 9:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.

Luke 6:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Matthew 25:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

Malachi 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”

Jeremiah 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

Isaiah 58:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Isaiah 14:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant it will slay.

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Psalm 107:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

But he raises up the needy out of affliction and makes their families like flocks.

Psalm 72:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper. He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.

Psalm 68:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.

Psalm 68:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 34:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.

Psalm 9:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

Job 30:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 29:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Deuteronomy 27:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 24:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,

Deuteronomy 15:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin.

Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

Leviticus 25:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.

Leviticus 19:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Romans 15:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 3 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.’”

John 12:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”

John 12:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”

Luke 16:19-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...

Luke 6:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

Luke 4:16-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. ...

Mark 12:41-44 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”

Mark 12:40 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Matthew 26:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.