What Does the Bible Say About Jesus And The Marginalized?

Luke 12:33 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

John 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Jeremiah 22:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.

Luke 4:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

James 1:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...

Matthew 4:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

Daniel 7:1-28 ESV / 7 helpful votes

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it. And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’ ...

Job 30:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

Jeremiah 7:5-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

1 Samuel 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.

Jeremiah 20:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

Isaiah 41:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

Mark 10:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Psalm 146:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;

Psalm 109:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.

Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

Psalm 72:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!

Psalm 68:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.

Psalm 68:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 40:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!

Psalm 35:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

Psalm 34:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.

Psalm 12:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

Deuteronomy 27:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

Deuteronomy 14:28-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

Deuteronomy 10:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

Leviticus 19:33-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 23:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Proverbs 17:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

47 Bible Verses about Jesus And The Marginalized

Luke 12:33 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 22:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 4:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 4:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 7:1-28 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 30:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 7:5-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 20:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 10:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 146:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 109:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 72:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 68:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 40:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 35:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 34:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 12:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 27:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 14:28-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Leviticus 19:33-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 23:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 17:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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