Recently the new House Speaker, Mike Johnson, was asked if he could explain his worldview, to which Johnson replied, “Go pick up a Bible, that’s my worldview.” Good idea, so I did that. Below are a few things I found that helped form my worldview. This is just a brief list. There are several hundred more like them. Tell Mike if he needs any help looking them up, just give me a call.
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Suppose a brother or a 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?
— James 2:15–16, NIV
Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
— Romans 12:13, NIV
The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.
— Proverbs 22:9, NIV
If anyone is poor among your [people] in any of the towns of the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them. Rather, be openhanded and freely lend them whatever they need.
— Deuteronomy 15:7–8, NIV
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
— Proverbs 31:9, KJV
If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
— 1 Corinthians 13:3, NIV
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’”
— Matthew 25:40, NIV
“Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.”
— Luke 12:33, NIV
Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.
— Proverbs 28:27, NIV
Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done.
— Proverbs 19:17, NIV
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?
— 1 John 3:17, NIV
So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
— Matthew 6:2, NIV
“But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
— Matthew 6:3–4, NIV
