Proverbs 14:31

WEB

³¹He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

KJV

³¹He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

BSB

³¹Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

FBV

³¹Anyone who oppresses the poor insults their Maker, but anyone who is kind to the needy honors him.

Extra References

Proverbs 22:2

²The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is the maker of them all.

Proverbs 17:5

⁵Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 22:16

¹⁶Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Proverbs 19:17

¹⁷He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; he will reward him.

1 John 4:21

²¹This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

⁸If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

1 John 3:17-21

¹⁷But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

¹⁸My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. ¹⁹And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him, ²⁰because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. ²¹Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Psalms 12:5

⁵“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

2 Corinthians 8:7-9

⁷But as you abound in everything—in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us—see that you also abound in this grace.

⁸I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love. ⁹For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Job 31:13-16

¹³“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me, ¹⁴what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him? ¹⁵Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb? ¹⁶“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,