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19 Bible Verses About Helping Others in Need

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  • Leviticus 19:9-10 told farmers to leave the edges of their fields and fallen grapes for the poor and the sojourner, and Ruth gleans under this law in the field of Boaz.
  • Deuteronomy 15 sets the command to “open wide your hand” inside the law of the seventh-year release of debts.
  • Isaiah 58 answers a people who fasted and felt unnoticed: the fast God chooses is feeding the hungry, housing the homeless and clothing the naked.
  • In Matthew 25:35-40 the King names six needs, and both the righteous and the others are surprised to learn they were meeting or neglecting him.
  • James 2:14-17 tests faith by a brother or sister who lacks daily food, and 1 John 3:17-18 tests love by a brother in need whom someone with “the world’s goods” refuses.

The Bible treats helping people in need as a command, given first to Israel as law and then by Jesus and the apostles to anyone who follows him. Israel’s farmers left the edges of their fields for the poor (Leviticus 19:9-10), and Jesus described the final judgment by who fed the hungry and visited the sick and imprisoned (Matthew 25:35-40). Deuteronomy 15:11 commands Israel to “open wide your hand” to the needy, Isaiah 58:6-7 calls sharing bread with the hungry…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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