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Want to know what the Bible says about Poor? Here are 264 Bible verses about Poor from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Psalm 113:7 NIV
He raises the poor from the dust
    and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
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Proverbs 31:20 NIV
She opens her arms to the poor
    and extends her hands to the needy.
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Proverbs 22:7 NIV
The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is slave to the lender.
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Exodus 22:25 NIV
“If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.
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2 Corinthians 9:7 NIV
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
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Proverbs 28:6 NIV
Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than the rich whose ways are perverse.
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Psalm 82:3 NIV
Defend the weak and the fatherless;
    uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
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Zechariah 7:10 NIV
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’
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Ezekiel 22:29 NIV
The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.
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Matthew 6:1-4 NIV
6 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
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