100 Bible Verses about Helping Those in Need

Here are 100 Bible verses about helping those in need, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Proverbs 19:17 KJV

¹⁷ He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

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Acts 20:35 KJV

³⁵ 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.

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Deuteronomy 15:11 KJV

¹¹ 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.

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Proverbs 22:9 KJV

⁹ He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

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Galatians 6:2 KJV

² Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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Matthew 5:42 KJV

⁴² Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

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Luke 6:38 KJV

³⁸ 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.

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Hebrews 13:16 KJV

¹⁶ But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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Proverbs 14:31 KJV

³¹ He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

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Luke 12:33-34 KJV

³³ 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. ³⁴ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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Matthew 25:35-40 KJV

³⁵ 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: ³⁶ Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. ³⁷ Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? ³⁸ When saw we thee …

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Proverbs 28:27 KJV

²⁷ He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

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Philippians 2:4 KJV

⁴ Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

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1 John 3:17 KJV

¹⁷ 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?

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Romans 12:13 KJV

¹³ Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

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James 2:14-17 KJV

¹⁴ What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? ¹⁷ Even so faith, if …

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Matthew 5:16 KJV

¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

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James 1:27 KJV

²⁷ 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.

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Matthew 10:8 KJV

⁸ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

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Romans 15:1 KJV

¹ We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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Proverbs 3:27 KJV

²⁷ Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

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1 John 3:17-18 KJV

¹⁷ 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? ¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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Ephesians 4:28 KJV

²⁸ 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.

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Luke 3:10-11 KJV

¹⁰ And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? ¹¹ 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.

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John 15:12 KJV

¹² This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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Galatians 2:10 KJV

¹⁰ Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

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Proverbs 21:13 KJV

¹³ Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

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Isaiah 1:17 KJV

¹⁷ Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

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Hebrews 6:10 KJV

¹⁰ 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.

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Psalm 82:4 KJV

⁴ Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

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Isaiah 25:4 KJV

⁴ For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

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Proverbs 29:7 KJV

⁷ The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

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Proverbs 14:21 KJV

²¹ He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

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John 15:13 KJV

¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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Proverbs 11:25 KJV

²⁵ The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

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Galatians 6:9 KJV

⁹ And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

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2 Corinthians 8:9 KJV

⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

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Exodus 17:12 KJV

¹² But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

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Deuteronomy 15:7-8 KJV

⁷ 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: ⁸ But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

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Romans 12:8 KJV

⁸ Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

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Proverbs 31:9 KJV

⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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1 John 4:19-20 KJV

¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us. ²⁰ If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

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1 Timothy 5:8 KJV

⁸ 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.

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Mark 12:31 KJV

³¹ And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

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Matthew 25:31-46 KJV

³¹ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: ³² And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: ³³ And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. ³⁴ Then shall the …

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Matthew 25:40 KJV

⁴⁰ And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

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Matthew 19:21 KJV

²¹ Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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James 1:17 KJV

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

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Luke 14:12-14 KJV

¹² 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. ¹³ But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: ¹⁴ And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be …

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Leviticus 19:9-10 KJV

⁹ And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. ¹⁰ And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.

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Leviticus 25:35 KJV

³⁵ And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

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Luke 10:25-37 KJV

²⁵ And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? ²⁶ He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? ²⁷ And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. …

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James 1:5 KJV

⁵ If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

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Ephesians 2:10 KJV

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

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Isaiah 58:10-11 KJV

¹⁰ 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 noon day: ¹¹ And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

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Acts 20:35-38 KJV

³⁵ 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. ³⁶ And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. ³⁷ And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him, ³⁸ Sorrowing most of all for the words …

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Matthew 25:44-45 KJV

⁴⁴ 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? ⁴⁵ Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

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Psalm 68:5 KJV

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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Isaiah 58:10 KJV

¹⁰ 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 noon day:

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Psalm 35:10 KJV

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

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Exodus 22:25 KJV

²⁵ If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

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John 3:17 KJV

¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Matthew 6:24 KJV

²⁴ 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.

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Luke 1:37 KJV

³⁷ For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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Matthew 6:1-4 KJV

¹ 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. ² Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. ³ But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand …

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Philippians 4:19 KJV

¹⁹ But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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Mark 10:21 KJV

²¹ Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

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Psalm 140:12 KJV

¹² I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

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Isaiah 58:6-7 KJV

⁶ 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? ⁷ Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

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Psalm 23:1-6 KJV

¹ The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ² He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. ³ He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. ⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. …

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2 Thessalonians 3:10 KJV

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

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Ephesians 4:32 KJV

³² And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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Matthew 25:35 KJV

³⁵ 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:

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Deuteronomy 15:10 KJV

¹⁰ Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

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Psalm 41:1-3 KJV

¹ Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. ² The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. ³ The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

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Deuteronomy 15:7 KJV

⁷ 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:

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Luke 12:33 KJV

³³ 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.

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Galatians 6:10 KJV

¹⁰ As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

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Proverbs 22:22-23 KJV

²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: ²³ For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

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Luke 3:11 KJV

¹¹ 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.

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Psalm 41:1 KJV

¹ Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

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Jeremiah 22:16 KJV

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.

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Isaiah 41:10 KJV

¹⁰ Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

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Matthew 5:1-48 KJV

¹ And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: ² And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, ³ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ⁴ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. ⁵ Blessed are the meek: for they shall …

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Luke 8:3 KJV

³ And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.

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Luke 6:30 KJV

³⁰ Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

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Isaiah 61:1 KJV

¹ The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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2 Corinthians 9:12 KJV

¹² For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

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1 John 4:7-8 KJV

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. ⁸ He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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Hebrews 4:16 KJV

¹⁶ Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

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Leviticus 19:10 KJV

¹⁰ And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.

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Acts 9:36 KJV

³⁶ Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.

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Deuteronomy 15:10-11 KJV

¹⁰ Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. ¹¹ 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.

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James 2:15-16 KJV

¹⁵ If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

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Romans 8:28 KJV

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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Proverbs 21:26 KJV

²⁶ He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

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John 10:10 KJV

¹⁰ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

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