Bible Verses About Helping People
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for helping people, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 27,143 votes, led by Proverbs 19:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Helping People
Proverbs 19:17634 votes
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Proverbs 22:9566 votes
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
1 John 3:17559 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?
Galatians 6:2481 votes
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Luke 12:33-34478 votes
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Philippians 2:4474 votes
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Deuteronomy 15:11456 votes
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Luke 6:38452 votes
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
James 2:14-17451 votes
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Matthew 5:16432 votes
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Hebrews 13:16432 votes
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Matthew 5:42420 votes
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Isaiah 58:10415 votes
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
Acts 20:35414 votes
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Romans 12:13410 votes
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Luke 3:10-11405 votes
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
Hebrews 6:10398 votes
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Proverbs 3:27394 votes
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Matthew 25:44-45384 votes
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Ephesians 4:28374 votes
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Proverbs 29:7370 votes
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Proverbs 14:31339 votes
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
James 1:27338 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
John 15:13335 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Matthew 10:8334 votes
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
What does the Bible say about helping people?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 19:17 on the subject of helping people. Across 27,143 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 22:9, 1 John 3:17, Galatians 6:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.