Popular Bible Verses about Poor - Page 17

Found 232 Verses (from 161)

Job 24:9

Bible Rank: 20,862

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt. NIV

[The violent men whose wickedness seems unnoticed] pluck the fatherless infants from the breast [to sell or make them slaves], and take [the clothing on] the poor for a pledge AMP

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. KJV

Job 20:19

Bible Rank: 21,177

For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build. NIV

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has violently taken away a house which he did not build. AMP

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; KJV

Psalms 72:12

Bible Rank: 21,329

For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help. NIV

For He delivers the needy when he calls out, the poor also and him who has no helper. AMP

For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. KJV

Jeremiah 22:16

Bible Rank: 21,366

He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?" declares the LORD." NIV

He judged and defended the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not [all] this [what it means] to know and recognize Me? says the Lord. AMP

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

Job 36:15

Bible Rank: 21,438

But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction. NIV

He delivers the afflicted in their affliction and opens their ears [to His voice] in adversity. AMP

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. KJV

Proverbs 28:6

Bible Rank: 21,463

Better the poor whose walk is blameless than the rich whose ways are perverse. NIV

Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity than he who willfully goes in double and wrong ways, though he is rich. AMP

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. KJV

Proverbs 31:9

Bible Rank: 21,552

Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. NIV

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and administer justice for the poor and needy. [Lev. 19:15; Deut. 1:16; Job 29:12; Isa. 1:17; Jer. 22:16.] AMP

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

Job 29:16

Bible Rank: 21,602

I was a father to the needy; I took up the case of the stranger. NIV

I was a father to the poor and needy; the cause of him I did not know I searched out. AMP

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. KJV

In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD. NIV

In you they have accepted bribes to shed blood; you have taken [forbidden] interest and [percentage of] increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by oppression and extortion and have forgotten Me, says the Lord God. AMP

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. KJV

Jeremiah 2:34

Bible Rank: 21,899

On your clothes is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this NIV

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the persons of the innocent poor; you did not find them housebreaking, nor have I found it out by secret search. But it is because of [your lust for idolatry that you have done] all these things--[that is everywhere evident.] AMP

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. KJV