29 Bible Verses about Not Helping The Poor

Whoever oppresses the poor defies their Creator, but whoever is kind to the needy honors them.

Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their maker, and whoever is happy about disaster will not go unpunished.

Whoever oppresses the poor to enrich himself and whoever gives gifts to the wealthy will yield only loss.

A poor man who oppresses the weak is like a rainstorm that destroys all the crops.

Don't take advantage of a hired person who is poor and needy, whether he's your fellow citizen or a foreigner who lives in your city.

How dare you crush my people as you grind down the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies.

"Therefore, since you trample the poor continuously, taxing his grain, building houses of stone in which you won't live and planting fine vineyards from which you won't drink

"Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, who intend to make the poor of the land fail,

On your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, even though you didn't catch them breaking in. Yet despite all these things,

Don't rob the poor person because he is poor, and don't crush the helpless in court,

Don't be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them.

moving quickly to rub the face of the needy in the dirt. Corrupting the ways of the humble, a man and his father go to the same woman, deliberately defiling my holy name.

and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court

buying the poor for cash, and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling chaff mixed in with the wheat.'

With his own lances you pierced the heads of his warriors, who came out like a windstorm to scatter us their joy is to devour the afflicted who are in hiding.

You are not to wrong the widow, orphans, the foreigner, or the poor, and you are not to plan evil against each other.

He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

You have homes in which to eat and drink, don't you? Or do you despise God's church and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

"If I refused to grant the desire of the poor or exhausted the eyes of the widow,

oppresses the afflicted and the poor, robs others, doesn't return security for a debt, looks to idols, does detestable things,

Look! This was the sin of your sister Sodom and her daughters: Pride, too much food, undisturbed peace, and failure to help the poor and needy.

and have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to their evil deeds. They don't argue the case of the orphan to secure justice. They don't defend the rights of the poor.

because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build.

They push the needy off the road, and force the poor of the land into hiding.

"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.

"Listen to this message, you fat cows from Bashan, who live on the Samaritan mountains, who oppress the poor, who rob the needy, and who constantly ask your husbands for one more drink!"

But you have humiliated the man who is poor. Are not rich people the ones who oppress you and drag you into court?

The people of the land were vigorously oppressive and took possession of plunder by violence. They've afflicted the poor and the needy and unjustly treated the foreigner.

The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night, he is like a thief.