Bible Verses About Poor: Duty to

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries.

If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyard and thy oliveyard.

When thou reapest the corn of thy land, thou shalt not cut down all that is on the face of the earth to the very ground: nor shalt thou gather the ears that remain.

Neither shalt thou gather the bunches and grapes that fall down in thy vineyard: but shalt leave them to the poor and the strangers to take. I am the Lord your God.

And when you reap the corn of your land, you shall not cut it to the very ground: neither shall you gather the ears that remain. But you shall leave them for the poor and for the strangers. I am the Lord your God.

If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold.

But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:

The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it. And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.

But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.

If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee:

Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest. Fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.

If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants.

But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee.

And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.

For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen.

Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.

The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.

And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.

Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again, because it is the year of remission of the Lord.

Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy countryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.

And there shall be no poor nor beggar among you: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in the land which he will give thee in possession.

Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all things that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he will bless thee, as he hath promised.