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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 23:3, 6

And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit. / You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Leviticus 19:15

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Samuel 2:7

The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Nehemiah 8:10, 12

Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” / Then all the people began to eat and drink, to send out portions, and to rejoice greatly, because they understood the words that had been made known to them.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 29:11–13, 15, 16

For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me, / because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper. / The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 30:25

Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 31:15–22

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb? / If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail, / if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 34:19

who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 37:16

Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 82:3, 4

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed. / Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 109:16

For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 10:15

The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 13:7, 8, 23

One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. / Riches may ransom a man’s life, but a poor man hears no threat. / Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 14:20, 21, 31

The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich. / He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who shows kindness to the poor. / Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 18:23

The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 19:1, 4, 7, 17, 22

Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse. / Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend. / All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 20:13

Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 22:2, 9

The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all. / A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 28:6, 8, 11, 19

Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse. / He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor. / A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man with discernment sees through him.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 29:14

A king who judges the poor with fairness—his throne will be established forever.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ecclesiastes 4:6, 13

Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind. / Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ecclesiastes 6:8

What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ecclesiastes 9:15, 16

Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man. / And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Jeremiah 22:16

He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ezekiel 16:49

Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 25:42, 45

For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink, / Then the King will answer, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.’

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 26:11

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 12:43, 44

Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury. / For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 14:7

The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 6:30–35

Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what is yours, do not demand it back. / Do to others as you would have them do to you. / If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 16:20, 21

And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores / and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To John 12:6

Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.

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Poor: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To James 1:9, 10

The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position. / But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

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