What are some Bible verses about the poor?

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Proverbs 19:17  

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.  
  

Proverbs 14:31  

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.  
  

Proverbs 22:9  

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.  
  

Proverbs 28:27  

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.  
  

Proverbs 29:7  

A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.  
  

Proverbs 14:21  

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.  
  

Luke 12:33\-34  

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  
  

Deuteronomy 15:11  

For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’  
  

Proverbs 21:13  

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.  
  

Matthew 19:21  

Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”  
  

2 Corinthians 8:9  

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.  
  

Acts 20:35  

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."  
  

Luke 14:12\-14  

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”  
  

Proverbs 22:22\-23  

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.  
  

James 1:27  

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.  
  

Psalm 140:12  

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.  
  

Deuteronomy 15:7\-8  

If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.  
  

Matthew 5:42  

Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.  
  

1 John 3:17  

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?  
  

Galatians 2:10  

Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.  
  

James 2:5  

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?  
  

*Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.*  
  

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