Poor

Atonement money of, uniform with that of the rich people

• Exodus 30:15

  The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

Inexpensive offerings of people who have very little money

• Leviticus 5:7

  And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 12:8

  And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

• Leviticus 14:21

  And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;

• Leviticus 14:22

  And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

Also see RICH

Unclassified scriptures relating to

• Exodus 23:3

  Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

• Exodus 23:6

  Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

• Leviticus 19:15

  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

• 1 Samuel 2:7

  The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

• Nehemiah 8:10

  Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

• Nehemiah 8:12

  And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

• Job 29:11–13

  When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

• Job 29:15

  I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

• Job 29:16

  I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

• Job 30:25

  Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

• Job 31:15–22

  Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; …

• Job 34:19

  How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

• Psalms 37:16

  A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

• Psalms 82:3

  Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

• Psalms 82:4

  Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

• Psalms 109:16

  Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

• Proverbs 10:15

  The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

• Proverbs 13:7

  There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

• Proverbs 13:8

  The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

• Proverbs 13:23

  Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

• Proverbs 14:20

  The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

• Proverbs 14:21

  He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

• Proverbs 14:31

  He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

• Proverbs 18:23

  The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.

• Proverbs 19:1

  Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

• Proverbs 19:4

  Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

• Proverbs 19:7

  All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

• Proverbs 19:17

  He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

• Proverbs 19:22

  The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

• Proverbs 20:13

  Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

• Proverbs 21:13

  Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

• Proverbs 22:2

  The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

• Proverbs 22:9

  He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

• Proverbs 23:21

  For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

• Proverbs 28:6

  Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

• Proverbs 28:8

  He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

• Proverbs 28:11

  The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

• Proverbs 28:19

  He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

• Proverbs 29:14

  The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

• Ecclesiastes 4:6

  Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

• Ecclesiastes 4:13

  Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

• Ecclesiastes 6:8

  For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

• Ecclesiastes 9:15

  Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

• Ecclesiastes 9:16

  Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

• Jeremiah 22:16

  He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

• Ezekiel 16:49

  Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

• Matthew 25:42

  For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

• Matthew 25:45

  Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

• Matthew 26:11

  For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

• Mark 12:43

  And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:

• Mark 12:44

  For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

• Mark 14:7

  For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

• Luke 6:30–35

  Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. …

• Luke 16:20

  And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,

• Luke 16:21

  And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

• John 12:6

  This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

• James 1:9

  Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

• James 1:10

  But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Duty to

• Exodus 22:25–27

  If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

• Exodus 23:11

  But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

• Leviticus 19:9

  And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

• Leviticus 19:10

  And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.

• Leviticus 23:22

  And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

• Leviticus 25:25–28

  If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession. …

• Leviticus 25:35–37

  And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

• Leviticus 25:39–43

  And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. …

• Deuteronomy 14:28

  At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

• Deuteronomy 14:29

  And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

• Deuteronomy 15:2–14

  And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release. Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: …

• Deuteronomy 24:12–21

  And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: …

• Deuteronomy 26:12

  When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

• Deuteronomy 26:13

  Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

• Nehemiah 8:10

  Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

• Psalms 37:21

  The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

• Psalms 37:26

  He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

• Psalms 41:1–3

  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

• Psalms 112:4

  Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

• Psalms 112:5

  A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

• Psalms 112:9

  He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.

• Proverbs 28:27

  He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

• Proverbs 29:7

  The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

• Proverbs 31:9

  Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

• Proverbs 31:20

  She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

• Isaiah 16:3

  Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

• Isaiah 16:4

  Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

• Isaiah 58:7

  Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

• Isaiah 58:10

  And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

• Ezekiel 18:7

  And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

• Ezekiel 18:16

  Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,

• Ezekiel 18:17

  That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

• Daniel 4:27

  Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

• Zechariah 7:10

  And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

• Matthew 5:42

  Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

• Matthew 19:21

  Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

• Matthew 25:35

  For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

• Matthew 25:36

  Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

• Mark 14:7

  For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

• Luke 3:11

  He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.

• Luke 6:30

  Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

• Luke 11:41

  But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

• Luke 12:33

  Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

• Luke 14:12–14

  Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

• Luke 18:22

  Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

• Luke 19:8

  And Zacchæus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

• Acts 20:35

  I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

• Romans 12:8

  Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

• Romans 12:13

  Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

• Romans 12:20

  Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

• 1 Corinthians 16:1

  Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

• 1 Corinthians 16:2

  Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

• 2 Corinthians 6:10

  As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

• 2 Corinthians 9:5–7

  Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness. But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

• 2 Corinthians 8:9

  For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

• Galatians 2:10

  Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

• Galatians 6:10

  As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

• Ephesians 4:28

  Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

• 1 Timothy 5:9

  Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

• 1 Timothy 5:10

  Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

• 1 Timothy 5:16

  If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

• Hebrews 13:3

  Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

• James 1:27

  Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

• James 2:2–9

  For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? …

• James 2:15

  If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

• James 2:16

  And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

• James 5:4

  Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

• 1 John 3:17–19

  But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

Figurative

God' s care of

• 1 Samuel 2:7

  The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

• Job 5:15

  But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

• Job 5:16

  So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

• Job 31:15

  Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

• Job 34:18

  Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

• Job 34:19

  How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

• Job 34:28

  So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

• Job 36:6

  He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

• Job 36:15

  He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

• Psalms 9:18

  For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

• Psalms 10:14

  Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

• Psalms 12:5

  For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

• Psalms 14:6

  Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

• Psalms 34:6

  This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

• Psalms 35:10

  All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

• Psalms 68:10

  Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

• Psalms 69:33

  For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

• Psalms 72:2

  He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

• Psalms 72:4

  He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

• Psalms 72:12–14

  For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

• Psalms 74:21

  O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

• Psalms 102:17

  He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

• Psalms 107:9

  For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

• Psalms 107:36

  And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

• Psalms 107:41

  Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

• Psalms 109:31

  For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

• Psalms 113:7

  He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

• Psalms 113:8

  That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

• Psalms 132:15

  I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

• Psalms 140:12

  I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

• Psalms 146:5

  Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

• Psalms 146:7

  Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

• Proverbs 22:2

  The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

• Proverbs 22:22

  Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

• Proverbs 22:23

  For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

• Proverbs 29:13

  The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.

• Ecclesiastes 5:8

  If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

• Isaiah 11:4

  But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

• Isaiah 14:30

  And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

• Isaiah 14:32

  What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

• Isaiah 25:4

  For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

• Isaiah 29:19

  The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 41:17

  When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

• Jeremiah 20:13

  Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

• Zephaniah 3:12

  I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

• Zechariah 11:7

  And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

• Matthew 11:5

  The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

• Luke 4:18

  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

• Luke 7:22

  Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.

• Luke 16:22

  And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

• James 2:5

  Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

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Nehemiah 5:1–13, Job 20:19–21, Job 22:6, Job 22:7, Job 22:9–11, Job 24:4, Job 24:7–10, Psalms 10:2, Psalms 10:8–10, Psalms 37:14, Proverbs 14:20, Proverbs 17:5, Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 22:7, Proverbs 22:16, Proverbs 28:3, Proverbs 28:15, Proverbs 30:14, Ecclesiastes 5:8, Isaiah 3:14, Isaiah 3:15, Isaiah 10:1, Isaiah 10:2, Isaiah 32:6, Isaiah 32:7, Ezekiel 18:12, Ezekiel 22:29, Amos 2:6–8, Amos 4:1, Amos 4:2, Amos 5:11, Amos 5:12, Amos 8:4, Amos 8:6, Habakkuk 3:14, James 2:6

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