TOPICAL BIBLE
Poor
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Proverbs 14:21He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.Proverbs 14:31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.Proverbs 17:5Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.Proverbs 18:23The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.Proverbs 19:1Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.Proverbs 19:4Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.Proverbs 19:7All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.Proverbs 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.Proverbs 19:22That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.Proverbs 20:13Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.Proverbs 21:13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.Proverbs 22:2The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.Proverbs 22:7The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.Proverbs 22:9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.Proverbs 22:16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.Proverbs 22:22Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;Proverbs 22:23for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.Proverbs 23:21for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.Proverbs 28:3A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.Proverbs 28:6Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.Proverbs 28:11The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.Proverbs 28:15As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.Proverbs 28:19One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.Proverbs 28:27One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.Proverbs 29:7The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.Proverbs 29:13The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.Proverbs 29:14The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.Proverbs 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.Proverbs 31:9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”Proverbs 31:20She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.Ecclesiastes 4:6Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.Ecclesiastes 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.Ecclesiastes 6:8For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?Ecclesiastes 9:15Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.Ecclesiastes 9:16Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.Isaiah 1:17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”Isaiah 3:14Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.Isaiah 3:15What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;Isaiah 10:2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!Isaiah 11:4but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.Isaiah 14:30The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.Isaiah 14:32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.Isaiah 16:3Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the midst of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!Isaiah 16:4Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.Isaiah 21:14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.Isaiah 25:4For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.Isaiah 29:19The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 32:6For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.Isaiah 32:7The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.Isaiah 41:17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.Isaiah 58:7Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?Isaiah 58:10and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;Isaiah 66:2For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.Jeremiah 20:13Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.Jeremiah 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? says Yahweh.Jeremiah 39:10But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.Daniel 4:27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.