Bible quotes on the poor

23:22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am

5:16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Source: The Book of Job

24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Source: The Book of Job

30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Source: The Book of Job

34:19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
Source: The Book of Job

9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Source: The Book of Psalms

10:8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Source: The Book of Psalms

68:10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
Source: The Book of Psalms

69:33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Source: The Book of Psalms

109:16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Source: The Book of Psalms

140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Source: The Book of Psalms

14:21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Source: The Proverbs

14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Source: The Proverbs

18:23 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
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22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Source: The Proverbs

28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Source: The Proverbs

28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Source: The Proverbs

3:14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

3:15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

20:13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel

4:27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Source: The Book of Daniel

2:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
Source: Amos

3:14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
Source: Habakkuk

26:9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
Source: The Gospel According to Saint Matthew

26:11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Source: The Gospel According to Saint Matthew

14:5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
Source: The Gospel According to Saint Mark

7:22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Source: The Gospel According to Saint Luke

12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
Source: The Gospel According to Saint John

12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
Source: The Gospel According to Saint John

13:29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
Source: The Gospel According to Saint John

15:26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

9:9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
Source: The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

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