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Top 25 Bible Verses About Helping The Poor (KJV)

This is a hand-curated and ranked list of 25 of the most relevant Bible verses about Helping The Poor (KJV). Verses are ranked by number of votes.

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Proverbs 19:17

#1
3115 votes
17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

Proverbs 22:9

#2
2709 votes
9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

Proverbs 14:31

#3
2564 votes
31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

Deuteronomy 15:11

#4
2113 votes
11 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.
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Proverbs 28:27

#6
2058 votes
27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

Galatians 2:10

#7
1670 votes
10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

Proverbs 21:13

#8
1620 votes
13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
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Acts 20:35

#10
1609 votes
35 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.

Matthew 5:42

#11
1462 votes
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

Proverbs 14:21

#12
1440 votes
21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
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James 1:27

#14
1409 votes
27 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.

Deuteronomy 15:7-8

#15
1346 votes
7 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: 8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

1 John 3:17

#16
1304 votes
17 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?
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Luke 14:12-14

#18
1298 votes
12 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. 13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: 14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Isaiah 58:10

#19
1265 votes
10 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:

Proverbs 29:7

#20
1242 votes
7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
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Luke 12:33-34

#22
1220 votes
33 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. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Luke 6:38

#23
1104 votes
38 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.

Proverbs 31:8-9

#24
1068 votes
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
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Proverbs 22:22-23

#26
1051 votes
22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: 23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

Psalm 140:12

#27
1037 votes
12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

Matthew 19:21

#28
1025 votes
21 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.

2 Corinthians 8:9

#29
959 votes
9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

Luke 3:11

#30
951 votes
11 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.

1 John 3:17-18

#31
947 votes
17 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? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
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