Quotes about Altruism
If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
- Deuteronomy 22:4
If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 24:19
Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
- 1 Samuel 30:11
Then he distributed to every man and woman of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.
- 1 Chronicles 16:3
You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
- Job 22:7
The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
- Job 29:13
I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
- Job 29:15
I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
- Job 29:16
If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
- Job 31:16
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
- Job 31:17
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
- Job 31:19
The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.
- Proverbs 11:26