‘It Is More Blessed To Give Than to Receive’—45 Inspiring Bible Verses About Helping Others

Nothing is more rewarding in life than helping someone else. Donating your time or money, or both, to lift others up will come back to you tenfold. And we've got the most inspiring Bible verses about helping others to keep you focused on this important goal.

In the King James version of the Bible, the word “help” appears 177 times. If you expand that range to all of the variations of translations, then that number grows to 225.

It shouldn’t be surprising that “helping” originally came from God himself.

In the Garden of Eden, after the creation of Adam, God saw that he needed help. Adam didn’t declare loneliness, but God saw it, and thus created Eve as an equal companion.

After reading these scriptures, you'll likely realize that it doesn't take much to help someone. Maybe just a little bit of your time. Start with something small but do it with a big heart. Here are 45 of the best Bible verses you can use as inspiration to help others and make the world a better place—one act at a time!

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45 Bible Verses About Helping Others

1. Philippians 2:4: Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

2. Hebrews 13:16: Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

3. Galatians 6:2: Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

4. Proverbs 19:17: Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

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5. Luke 6:38: Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure, you use it will be measured back to you.”

6. Acts 20:35: In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

7. 1 John 3:17: But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

8. Proverbs 22:9: Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

9. James 2:14-17: What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

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10. Matthew 5:16: In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

11. Matthew 5:42: Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

12. Romans 15:1: We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

13. John 15:12: This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

14. Deuteronomy 15:11: 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.’

15. Matthew 25:35-40: For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ ...

16. Proverbs 3:27: Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

17. Romans 12:13: Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

18. Hebrews 6:10: For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

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19. Luke 12:33-34: 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. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

20. James 1:27: 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.

21. Luke 3:10-11: And the crowds asked him, “What then shall we do?” And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”

22. John 15:13: Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

23. Matthew 10:8: Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.

24. Ephesians 4:28: Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

25. Proverbs 11:25: Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

26. 1 Timothy 5:8: But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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27. Matthew 25:44-45: Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’

28. Proverbs 28:27: Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

29. Isaiah 1:17: Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

30. 1 John 4:19-20: We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

31. Proverbs 14:31: Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

32. Exodus 17:12: But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So, his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

33. Isaiah 58:10: If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

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34. Proverbs 21:13: Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

35. Proverbs 29:7: A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

36. Ephesians 2:10: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

37. Romans 12:8: The one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

38. Galatians 6:9: And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

39. Matthew 25:40: And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

40. Proverbs 31:9: Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

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41. James 1:5: If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

42. Luke 8:3: And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.

43. 2 Corinthians 8:9: For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

44. Proverbs 14:21: Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

45. James 1:17: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

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