Bible Verses About Poor: Unclassified scriptures relating to

Thou shalt not esteeme a poore man in his cause.

Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute.

Ye shall not doe vniustly in iudgement. Thou shalt not fauour the person of the poore, nor honour the person of the mightie, but thou shalt iudge thy neighbour iustly.

The Lord maketh poore and maketh rich: bringeth lowe, and exalteth.

He saide also vnto the, Go, and eate of the fat, and drinke the sweete, and send part vnto them, for whome none is prepared: for this day is holie vnto our Lord: be ye not sorie therefore: for the ioy of the Lord is your strength.

Then all the people went to eate and to drinke, and to send away part, and to make great ioy, because they had vnderstand the wordes that they had taught them.

And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me.

For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.

I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.

I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?

He that hath made me in the wombe, hath he not made him? hath not he alone facioned vs in the wombe?

If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,

Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,

(For from my youth hee hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue bene a guide vnto her)

If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,

If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,

If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,

Let mine arme fal from my shoulder, and mine arme be broken from the bone.

How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, and regardeth not the rich, more then the poore? for they be all the worke of his handes.

A small thing vnto the iust man is better, then great riches to the wicked and mightie.

Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.

Deliuer the poore and needie: saue them from the hand of the wicked.

Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.