29 Bible Verses about Not Helping The Poor

He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.

He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.

Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)

What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.

If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,

Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.

They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.

But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.