Top 19 Bible Verses-What To Do About Poverty …
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Leviticus 25:35
“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
Proverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.
Proverbs 20:13
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 28:6
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 29:7
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
Luke 12:32-34
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Leviticus 19:9-10
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
1 John 3:17
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
Psalm 103:6
The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.
Psalm 140:12
I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
Proverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Matthew 5:3
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Proverbs 14:21
Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them he has set the world.
Proverbs 22:9
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Psalm 35:10
All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”
4 thoughts on “Top 19 Bible Verses-What To Do About Poverty”
The last verse post Psalms 35:10, stands out, in the midst of being free to give to others in their need.
For I see discernment is needed before giving. To know when, where, how much, (for we are not under the 20% rule today) we are in the art of giving, cheerfully, willingly, 2 Cor 8-9-10 explain this to me.
Ecclesiastes also tells me about there is a time for everything under God Father’s leadership in risen Son for us. But does not reveal Son then until after his resurrection.
So give please, as led from Father is our leader. Not known as Father in the first Testament before the Christ reconciled us all to Father. As The Christ is the one that introduced Father. So we could see his full love, through his done work for us all to turn to Father in belief of Son is risen we are forgiven and new life is ready, Is installed as in Romans 4:17-25 talks about.
Do not forget King Nebuchadnezzar, who chewed the cud of the ground for I think was 7 years, before turning back to God Father (not known as Father then)
So this ? comes up, does God punish us, after the risen Christ took care of all needed to get new life today freely. No! in my honest opinion, not after the cross. Circumstances do this with the evil that is here all around us.
And before King Nebuchadnezzar was in plight for all those years, remember he had given his life to God prior.
So was he being buffeted or punished?
2 Cor 12:7-10
God Bless You!! Thank you for sharing these verses. I personally have been on both side. We can all have one day, and the next day have nonthing. Our God is Able!! We must continue doing what He has command us to do. To do all we can to Help!! ((Hugs)) \0/\0/
Our God is able indeed! And in a world of changing circumstances, he is the same forever and ever.
This post here, I thank you, for my Sister, did this exactly with my wife and I, when I got disabled in 2012, took us on, as we are, in belief to Father and Son as led to. So I forwarded this to her, in deep thanksgiving and praise, that I know she gives God all the credit in.
Amen.