The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

[They asked] only that we would remember the poor, which I made every effort to do.

Gal. 2:10 (HCSB)

Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

Lamentations 2:19 (HCSB)

So each of the disciples, according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea.

Acts 11:29 (HCSB)

On the contrary, when you host a banquet, invite those who are poor, maimed, lame, or blind.

Luke 14:13 (HCSB)

But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord! And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much!”

Luke 19:8 (HCSB)

“What then should we do?” the crowds were asking him. He replied to them, “The one who has two shirts must share with someone who has none, and the one who has food must do the same.”

Luke 3:10-11 (HCSB)

For there will never cease to be poor people in the land; that is why I am commanding you, ‘You must willingly open your hand to your afflicted and poor brother in your land.’

Deuteronomy 15:11 (HCSB)

The Lord GOD showed me this: A basket of summer fruit. He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?”

I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.”

The LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them. In that day the temple songs will become wailing” — the Lord GOD ‘s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!”

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land, asking, “When will the New Moon be over so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so we may market wheat? We can reduce the measure while increasing the price
and cheat with dishonest scales. We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the wheat husks!”

The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: I will never forget all their deeds.

Because of this, won’t the land quake and all who dwell in it mourn?
All of it will rise like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

And in that day— [this is] the declaration of the Lord GOD — I will make the sun go down at noon; I will darken the land in the daytime.

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation;
I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth
and every head to be shaved.
I will make that grief like mourning for an only son
and its outcome like a bitter day.

Hear this! The days are coming— [this is] the declaration of the Lord GOD — when I will send a famine through the land: not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.
People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

In that day the beautiful young women,
the young men also, will faint from thirst.
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
or “As the way of Beersheba lives” — they will fall, never to rise again.

Amos 8 (HCSB)

If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?

James 2:16 (HCSB)

Rescue the poor and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

Psalm 82:4 (HCSB)

For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you took care of Me; I was in prison and you visited Me.

Matthew 25:35-36 (HCSB)

They were hungry and thirsty; their spirits failed within them.

Psalm 107:5 (HCSB)

Then He commanded the crowds to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them. He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples [gave them] to the crowds.

Matthew 14:19 (HCSB)

“When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:9-10 (HCSB)

For there will never cease to be poor people in the land; that is why I am commanding you, ‘You must willingly open your hand to your afflicted and poor brother in your land.’

Deuteronomy 15:11 (HCSB)

“They don’t need to go away,” Jesus told them. “You give them something to eat.”

Matthew 14:16 (HCSB)

“And the King will answer them, ‘I assure you: Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’

Matthew 25:40 (HCSB)

…and if you offer yourself to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted one, then your light will shine in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

Isaiah 58:10 (HCSB)

A generous person will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

Proverbs 22:9 (HCSB)

[They asked] only that we would remember the poor, which I made every effort to do.

Galatians 2:10 (HCSB)

He has told you men what is good and what it is the LORD requires of you: Only to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God.

Micah 6:8 (HCSB)

The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 22:39 (HCSB)

“You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.

Matthew 5:14,16 (HCSB)

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

Ephesians 4:32 (HCSB)

This is My command: love one another as I have loved you.

John 15:12 (HCSB)

So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female.

Genesis 1:27 (HCSB)