58 Bible Verses about Helpfulness

Don't be afraid, for I am with you! Don't be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you -- yes, I help you -- yes, I uphold you with my saving right hand!

May he not allow your foot to slip! May your protector not sleep! Look! Israel's protector does not sleep or slumber!

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever --

The Lord is on my side, I am not afraid! What can people do to me? The Lord is on my side as my helper. I look in triumph on those who hate me.

You have joy, Israel! Who is like you? You are a people delivered by the Lord, your protective shield and your exalted sword. May your enemies cringe before you; may you trample on their backs.

Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating."

The Lord strengthens and protects me; I trust in him with all my heart. I am rescued and my heart is full of joy; I will sing to him in gratitude.

Look, God is my deliverer! The Lord is among those who support me.

Look, the sovereign Lord helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them.

I have experienced help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said was going to happen:

If the Lord had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death.

Now, assign me this hill country which the Lord promised me at that time! No doubt you heard at that time that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. But, assuming the Lord is with me, I will conquer them, as the Lord promised."

Do not remain far away from me, for trouble is near and I have no one to help me.

I am oppressed and needy! May the Lord pay attention to me! You are my helper and my deliverer! O my God, do not delay!

The Lord protects the untrained; I was in serious trouble and he delivered me.

He sees there is no advocate; he is shocked that no one intervenes. So he takes matters into his own hands; his desire for justice drives him on.

I looked, but there was no one to help; I was shocked because there was no one offering support. So my right arm accomplished deliverance; my raging anger drove me on.

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

So we can say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"

They cry out, but there is no one to help them; they cry out to the Lord, but he does not answer them.

"If I cry out, 'Violence!' I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

because they had rebelled against God's commands, and rejected the instructions of the sovereign king. So he used suffering to humble them; they stumbled and no one helped them up. They cried out to the Lord in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

I will destroy you, O Israel! Who is there to help you?

"'It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,' the Lord Lord who rules over all had said.

When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.

Naaman went away angry. He said, "Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease. The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel! Could I not wash in them and be healed?" So he turned around and went away angry.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease. Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors.

And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand by casting all your cares on him because he cares for you.

Then David asked, "Is anyone still left from the family of Saul, so that I may extend kindness to him for the sake of Jonathan?"

Which of these three do you think became a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?" The expert in religious law said, "The one who showed mercy to him." So Jesus said to him, "Go and do the same."

Carry one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and eat well," but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?read more.
So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

Men were assigned to take the prisoners and find clothes among the plunder for those who were naked. So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin. They put the ones who couldn't walk on donkeys. They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.

I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame; I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;

All who believed were together and held everything in common, and they began selling their property and possessions and distributing the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need.

For there was no one needy among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling them and bringing the proceeds from the sales and placing them at the apostles' feet. The proceeds were distributed to each, as anyone had need.

Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.

David was going back and forth from Saul in order to care for his father's sheep in Bethlehem.

He said to his servant, "Run, find the arrows that I am about to shoot." As the servant ran, Jonathan shot the arrow beyond him.

Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman's wife. She told her mistress, "If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his skin disease."

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?"

The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."

The one who finds a wife finds what is enjoyable, and receives a pleasurable gift from the Lord.

She brings him good and not evil all the days of her life.

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.

so that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints and provide her with whatever help she may need from you, for she has been a great help to many, including me.

But the woman hid the two men and replied, "Yes, these men were clients of mine, but I didn't know where they came from.

So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, "Please give me a cup of water, so I can take a drink." As she went to get it, he called out to her, "Please bring me a piece of bread."

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

Now, brothers and sisters, you know about the household of Stephanus, that as the first converts of Achaia, they devoted themselves to ministry for the saints. I urge you also to submit to people like this, and to everyone who cooperates in the work and labors hard.

as you also join in helping us by prayer, so that many people may give thanks to God on our behalf for the gracious gift given to us through the help of many.

Yes, I say also to you, true companion, help them. They have struggled together in the gospel ministry along with me and Clement and my other coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.

Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.'

The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the Lord, except for Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the spies we sent.

For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, 'The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.'"