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Welfare

See also Alms, Almsgiving; Fast, Fasting; Offering; Poor; Service

The process of and means for taking care of people’s spiritual and temporal needs.

  • Open your hand wide to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land:Deut. 15:11;
  • He that giveth to the poor shall not lack:Prov. 28:27;
  • Is this not the fast that I have chosen? to give thy bread to the hungry, to bring the poor into thy house:Isa. 58:6–7;
  • I was hungry and ye gave me meat; I was a stranger and ye took me in. When you do it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me:Matt. 25:35–40;
  • Administer your substance to him that stands in need:Mosiah 4:16–26;
  • They gave to one another temporally and spiritually according to their needs and wants:Mosiah 18:29;
  • They were commanded to join in fasting and prayer for the welfare of those who did not know God:Alma 6:6;
  • Pray for your welfare and for the welfare of those around you:Alma 34:27–28;
  • They had all things common among them:4 Ne. 1:3;
  • Remember the poor:D&C 42:30–31;
  • Visit the poor and needy:D&C 44:6;
  • Remember in all things the poor and needy:D&C 52:40;
  • Wo to you rich who will not give your substance to the poor, and wo to you poor who are not satisfied, who are greedy and will not labor:D&C 56:16–17;
  • In Zion there were no poor among them:Moses 7:18;