Bible Verses About Poor People
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for poor people, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,338 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 Poor People
Proverbs 19:17228 votes
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Deuteronomy 15:11179 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 14:31175 votes
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
1 John 3:17144 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?
Proverbs 29:7122 votes
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Matthew 5:3121 votes
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 6:20-21113 votes
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 22:9107 votes
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Luke 12:33107 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.
Proverbs 14:2196 votes
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Isaiah 58:1089 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:
Matthew 6:2483 votes
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 16:19-2582 votes
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
James 1:2777 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.
2 Corinthians 9:773 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 21:1372 votes
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Luke 3:1172 votes
He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
Psalms 140:1269 votes
I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Proverbs 28:2767 votes
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Proverbs 17:566 votes
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Ephesians 4:2866 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 31:8-965 votes
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Matthew 26:1165 votes
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Leviticus 19:1564 votes
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Deuteronomy 15:761 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:
What does the Bible say about poor people?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 19:17 on the subject of poor people. Across 5,338 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Deuteronomy 15:11, Proverbs 14:31, 1 John 3:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.