Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

Here is, I. The duty of charity described. It includes two things: - 1. Compassion, which is the inward principle of charity in the heart; it is to have pity on the poor. Those that have not a penny for the poor, yet may have pity for them, a charitable concern and sympathy; and, if a man give all his goods to feed the poor...

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

He that hath pity unto the poor lendeth unto the Lord,.... A man, whose heart is full of compassion to the poor, and whose hands distribute to their necessities, from a true principle of love and charity to men, and with a view to the glory of God, and not from any selfish principle and with a end; such a man's gift to the poor...

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed @jfbcommentary

(Compare Pro 14:21; Psa 37:26). hath pity--shown by acts (compare Margin).