"All people need to feel useful" does sound kind of touchy-feely.
Perhaps I should have said God will rain fire on you unless
you get busy, start being hospitable, and help others?
Ezekiel 16
49 “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
Hebrews 13:16
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Philippians 2:4
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Luke 6:38
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
1 John 3:17
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
Matthew 25:35-40
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ ...
Galatians 6:2
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Proverbs 19:17
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
James 2:14-17
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Proverbs 22:9
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Acts 20:35
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Romans 15:1
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Matthew 5:42
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
Proverbs 3:27
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.