Should we help the poor?????????

Should we help the poor?
Some biblical quotes that may help you decide for yourself.
Poor and rich are equal before God (Ex 30:15, Prov 22:2,29:13) but to neglect the poor is to deny God's Lordship (Lev 19:10, 23:22). We are to be generous to the needy (Deut 15:7) and to consider their circumstances in structuring our economic arrangements (Deut 24:15). Both poverty and wealth are created by God, therefore we are not to take credit for our wealth or blame the poor for their poverty (I Sam 2:7-8).
To take from the poor is to do injustice (2 Sam 12:1), and God will judge against those who have the spoil of the poor in their houses (Is 3:14-15).
The poor are protected by God (Psalms 12:5, 35:10, 69:23, 70:5, 86:1) who takes thought for them (Ps 40:17) and will give them refuge (Ps 14:6) from every trouble (both spiritual and physical) (Ps 34:6), who will maintain the cause of the needy and execute justice for the poor (Ps 140:12), and who will give happiness to people who consider the poor (Ps 41:1) Kindness to the poor is a loan which God will repay (Prov 19:17).
The mark of Zion, and by extension any Government whose leaders take God seriously, is that the needy will find refuge there (Is 14:32). At the day of God's presence, the poor will be joyful (Is 29:19); God is concerned that the poor have water to drink even when others fail them (Is 41:17), and will punish a country which allows the poor to be sold for a pair of sandals (Amos 2:6). To judge the cause of the poor and needy is to know God (Jer 22:16).
In the New Testament, Jesus opens his ministry by announcing, in the words of Isaiah, the he has come to bring good news to the poor (Luke 4:18); in the Beatitudes he says it is the poor who will inherit the Kingdom of God (Luke 6:20), and in the parable of the Great Banquet it is the poor who are invited into the Kingdom's feast after the rich have rejected it. (Luke 14:21).
Jesus knows that salvation has come to the house of Zacchaeus because Zacchaeus gives half his goods to the poor (Luke 19:8), and St. Paul indicates that Jesus had done the same, for "though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor." (2 Corinthians 8:9)
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