19 Bijbelverzen over het helpen van anderen in nood

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…