Helping the Needy

For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.

In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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

If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

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

If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.

And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.