Matthew 25:35 ESV / 172 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 132 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 90 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 69 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Luke 14:12-14 ESV / 65 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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.”

Matthew 10:42 ESV / 58 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”

Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

Esther 9:22 ESV / 43 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful As the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

Matthew 14:13-21 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.” ...

Matthew 6:31 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

Luke 3:11 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”

1 John 3:17-18 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Psalm 146:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;

Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

James 1:27 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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.

1 Peter 5:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;

Isaiah 58:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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.’

1 John 3:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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?

Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

Galatians 2:10 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

Acts 2:44-45 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Malachi 3:5 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

John 6:1-71 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” ...

Ezekiel 18:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Psalm 140:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.

Deuteronomy 15:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “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,

Luke 12:33 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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.

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Proverbs 22:22-23 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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.

Romans 12:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Matthew 25:36 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’

Matthew 19:21 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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.”

Acts 20:35 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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.’”

Matthew 25:43 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

James 2:15 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,

Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Psalm 35:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

Deuteronomy 15:7-8 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “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.

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

Proverbs 31:20 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

Psalm 112:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor.

James 2:14-18 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

2 Corinthians 9:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful As it is written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Romans 12:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Matthew 25:37-40 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 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 drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ...

Matthew 5:42 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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.

1 Peter 1:1-25 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ...

Matthew 14:15-21 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.” And he said, “Bring them here to me.” Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. ...

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

Leviticus 23:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”

James 2:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?

James 2:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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?

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Romans 12:19-20 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Matthew 25:37 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?

Isaiah 10:1-3 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

Proverbs 17:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

Deuteronomy 24:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

Leviticus 19:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

James 2:15-16 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Acts 10:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

Luke 14:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

Luke 6:20-21 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Ezekiel 18:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Does not oppress anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Psalm 12:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

1 Samuel 2:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.

Leviticus 19:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.

James 2:2-6 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 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? But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?

1 Timothy 5:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Honor widows who are truly widows.

Acts 24:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.

Acts 9:36 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.

Jeremiah 22:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.

Isaiah 11:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

Job 29:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

James 2:15-17 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Proverbs 3:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;

Psalm 113:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Psalm 9:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

Leviticus 25:35 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

Exodus 23:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...