Bible Verses About Social Exclusion

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.