Helping the Poor

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

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

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

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.

Whoever gives to the poor will not be in need, but he who hides his eyes will receive many curses.

They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

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

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.’”

Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.