Helping the Homeless

But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,

…and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.

Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.

Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.

A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke? …

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.