Leviticus 25:35 If any of your people become poor and unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner or stranger, so they may continue to live among you.
Proverbs 11:24 One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
Proverbs 13:11 Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
Proverbs 15:27 Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.
Proverbs 17:5 He who mocks the poor taunts his Maker; He who rejoices at misfortune will not go unpunished
Proverbs 22:22-23 Do not exploit the poor because they are poor, or crush the needy in court, for the Lord will plead their case, and exact life for life.
Proverbs 22:16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own gain and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
Proverbs 22:26–27 Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge, one of those who is surety for debts; if you have nothing with which to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
Proverbs 28:25-28 A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched. Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered. Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Proverbs 29:7 A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
Psalm 62:10 Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
Psalm 82:3-4 Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the poor and afflicted. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do good; seek justice, fight oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Isaiah 10:1-2 Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
Isaiah 56:11 The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. But they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.
Isaiah 58: 6-7 Is this not a better fast, to loose the chains of injustice and untie the burden, to free the oppressed and break every yoke? Or to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—to clothe the naked, and not to turn your eyes away from your brother?
Isaiah 58:10 If you break the yoke of oppression, end the finger-pointing and malicious talk, and work to feed the hungry and fight for the oppressed, your light will rise in the darkness; your night will be like the midday sun.
Ezekiel 16:49 Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and apathetic; they did not help the poor and needy.
Ecclesiastes 5:10-14 Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless. As riches increase, so do those who covet them. Of what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?
Zechariah 7:9-11 This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’
Jeremiah 22:3 Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood here.
Jeremiah 22:13 Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his neighbor work for nothing and refuses to pay his wages.
Malachi 3:5-6 "I will be quick to denounce sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, and those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.
Amos 2: 6-7 “For three sins of Israel, even for four, I will not relent. They sell the innocent for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals. They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed.”
Matthew 5:42 “Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.”
Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Matthew 13:22 “As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of riches choke the word, and it yields nothing.”
Matthew 19:21 “If you want to be perfect, go and sell your belongings and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.”
Mark 8:36 “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?”
Luke 3:11 “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”
Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and restore sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Luke 12:15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Luke 12:48 “To whom much is given, much will be expected; and from whom much has been entrusted, much more will be asked.”
Acts 8:20 May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
Acts 20:35 “In all I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of Lord Jesus himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
1 Timothy 6:17-19 Command those who are currently rich not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is fleeting, but in God, who richly provides for us. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will save up treasure for the coming age, so that they may have life that is truly life.
1 Timothy 6:9 But those who desire wealth fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Philippians 2:3-4 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, value others above yourself in humility, looking out not for just yourselves, but each of you for the good of others.
2 Corinthians 8:13-15 Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you work hard, but that there might be equality. At this time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”
James 2:14-17 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and well-fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
James 5:4-6 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
1 John 3:17-18 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? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
Matthew 25:42-45 'For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you have me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I was sick and in prison you did not look after me.' They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
To cover some of these in a smaller set of more easily digestible bullet points:
- Help those who are poor and/or unable to support themselves
- Do not oppress each other (y'know, like voting against each others' civil rights, or something like that)
- We should be happier to give than to take (this one's tough for me because I want us to give with autonomy, not for the labor force to give up any/all leverage to employers)
- Don't be greedy (again, a tough one for me. I don't want people to be greedy, but in a democratic society that also includes checking others' insatiable greed - y'know, like folks pulling in billions a year [hate to say it, but most folks barely have a concept of how much a billion of anything is])
- There should be equity to the point where those at the top don't have too much (like, say, a megayacht that pollutes the ocean) while those at the bottom don't have too little (I would say lacking adequate healthcare, housing, and food qualify you as having too little)
- Faith without action is worthless (so NO, running your trap about being a good Christian or person does NOT count for anything!!
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