Bible Verses About Begging
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for begging, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 291 votes, led by Psalms 37:25. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Begging
Psalms 37:2563 votes
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Malachi 3:1035 votes
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
1 John 3:1730 votes
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Luke 16:321 votes
Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
Matthew 26:3920 votes
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Psalms 23:1-618 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Deuteronomy 8:317 votes
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
James 4:317 votes
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Proverbs 13:416 votes
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 20:415 votes
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Genesis 50:1713 votes
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
Isaiah 8:2113 votes
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
John 6:4413 votes
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
What does the Bible say about begging?
Readers most often cite Psalms 37:25 on the subject of begging. Across 291 votes, 13 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Malachi 3:10, 1 John 3:17, Luke 16:3. This page lists all 13 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.