Bible Verses About Serving the Poor

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

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

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor , happy is he.

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

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.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.