"Biblical View of the Poor"

It is not a sin to be poor, nor is it a sin to be rich, but it is a sin to have more than we need and not share it with those who have less than they need.
 
God has given many guidelines concerning the relationship and responsibility of the body towards those who are lacking in material resources.  The sharing of these physical resources, while a command of God and of great importance, must not supercede the greater value that all believers have to share in spiritual resources.  Only a part of the body has an abundance of material goods and is able to share in a greater way in this way, yet, all the body has the ability to share in the spiritual.

Rom. 12:13 (NKJV) distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.

Rom. 15:25-28 (NKJV) But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints. 26 For it pleased those from Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem. 27 It pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things. 28 Therefore, when I have performed this and have sealed to them this fruit, I shall go by way of you to Spain.

2 Cor. 8:1-15 (NKJV) Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia: 2 that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality. 3 For I bear witness that according to [their] ability, yes, and beyond [their] ability, [they] [were] freely willing, 4 imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 5 And not [only] as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and [then] to us by the will of God. 6 So we urged Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also complete this grace in you as well. 7 But as you abound in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us--[see] that you abound in this grace also. 8 I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich. 10 And in this I give advice: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago; 11 but now you also must complete the doing [of] [it]; that as [there] [was] a readiness to desire [it], so [there] also [may] [be] a completion out of what [you] have. 12 For if there is first a willing mind, [it] [is] accepted according to what one has, [and] not according to what he does not have. 13 For [I] [do] not [mean] that others should be eased and you burdened; 14 but by an equality, [that] now at this time your abundance [may] [supply] their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack--that there may be equality. 15 As it is written, "He who [gathered] much had nothing left over, and he who [gathered] little had no lack."

2 Cor 9:5-7 (NKJV) Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which [you] [had] previously promised, that it may be ready as [a] [matter] [of] generosity and not as a grudging obligation. 6 But this [I] [say]: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 [So] [let] each one [give] as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Cor 9:9-14 (NKJV) As it is written: He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever." 10 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have [sown] and increase the fruits of your righteousness, 11 while [you] [are] enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God. 12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God, 13 while, through the proof of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal sharing with them and all [men], 14 and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you.

 Gal. 2:9-10 (NKJV) and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we [should] [go] to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10 [They] [desired] only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.

Eph. 4:28  (NKJV) 28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with [his] hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.

Heb. 13:15-16 (NKJV) Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of [our] lips, giving thanks to His name. 16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

James 2:14-17 (NKJV) What [does] [it] profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what [does] [it] profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

1 John 3:16-19 (NKJV) By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.