Bible Verses About Helping the Needy
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for helping the needy, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,093 votes, led by Acts 20:35. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Helping the Needy
Acts 20:35148 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.
Deuteronomy 15:11146 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.
Proverbs 19:17138 votes
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
1 John 3:17-18113 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?
1 John 3:1792 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?
Matthew 6:1-481 votes
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Hebrews 13:1678 votes
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Proverbs 14:3169 votes
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Luke 12:33-3463 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.
1 Timothy 5:857 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Matthew 6:19-2155 votes
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Deuteronomy 15:7-854 votes
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Matthew 25:3554 votes
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
James 1:2746 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.
1 Timothy 6:17-1944 votes
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Luke 14:12-1442 votes
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
Proverbs 22:940 votes
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Ephesians 4:2836 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.
Isaiah 58:1032 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:
Proverbs 28:2731 votes
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Ezekiel 16:4930 votes
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Isaiah 58:6-727 votes
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
2 Corinthians 9:726 votes
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Proverbs 14:2125 votes
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Luke 12:3325 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.
What does the Bible say about helping the needy?
Readers most often cite Acts 20:35 on the subject of helping the needy. Across 2,093 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Deuteronomy 15:11, Proverbs 19:17, 1 John 3:17-18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.