Bible Verses About Helping Others

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

The whole law of Christ, summed up in a posture: get under the weight someone else is carrying and lift with them.

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Jesus erases the distance between himself and the overlooked. Help the least of these, and you've helped him directly.

But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

The hero of the story is a Samaritan — the despised outsider — while the religious insiders walked past. Jesus chose that on purpose.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Sharing what you have is named a sacrifice — an act of worship as real as anything done at an altar.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

A small, daily reorientation: lift your eyes off your own concerns long enough to notice someone else's.