Bible Verses About Poor

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

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

¶ Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

¶ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

¶ The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

¶ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

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

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

¶ The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

¶ Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

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:

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

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.

And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,