The Bible has a lot to say about our responsibility to the poor and needy.\u00a0 Here is a sample :<\/p>\n
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WISDOM LITERATURE<\/p>\n
If you help the poor, you are lending to the LORD\u2014and he will repay you!\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Proverbs 19:17 NIV<\/p>\n
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JESUS<\/p>\n
Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. \u201cThere is still one thing you haven\u2019t done,\u201d he told him. \u201cGo and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Mark 10:21 NIV<\/p>\n
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EARLY CHURCH LEADERS TO NEW GENTILE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS<\/p>\n
Their only suggestion was that we keep on helping the poor, which I have always been eager to do.\u00a0 Galatians 2:10 NIV<\/p>\n
ANGEL TO ROMAN SOLDIER<\/p>\n
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment.\u00a0 He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly.\u00a0 One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”\u00a0 Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked. The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.\u00a0 Acts 10:1 – 4 NIV<\/p>\n
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JAMES, BROTHER OF JESUS,\u00a0 TO CHURCH FELLOWSHIP<\/p>\n
Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.\u00a0 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,”\u00a0 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?\u00a0 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?\u00a0 But you have dishonored the poor.\u00a0 James 2:2 – 6 NIV<\/p>\n
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APOSTLE JOHN<\/p>\n
If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? \u00a0Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.\u00a0 1 John 3:17 – 18 NIV<\/p>\n
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