| Proverbs 28 3 |
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. |
| Ezekiel 22 29 |
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. |
| Proverbs 19 4 |
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. |
| Psalms 82 3 |
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. |
| Proverbs 22 22 |
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: |
| Proverbs 10 15 |
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. |
| Isaiah 1 7 |
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. |
| Proverbs 22 2 |
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all. |
| Proverbs 11 24 |
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. |
| Amos 8 4 |
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, |
| Proverbs 13 23 |
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment. |
| 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. |
| Proverbs 14 20 |
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends. |
| Psalms 9 18 |
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. |
| Proverbs 30 8 |
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: |
| Job 29 16 |
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. |
| Deuteronomy 15 11 |
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land. |
| Proverbs 24 34 |
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. |
| Proverbs 13 18 |
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. |
| Proverbs 6 11 |
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. |
| Proverbs 22 16 |
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. |
| Genesis 43 1 |
And the famine was sore in the land. |
| Proverbs 22 7 |
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. |
| Job 24 4 |
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. |
| 2 Corinthians 8 2 |
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. |
| Proverbs 29 7 |
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it. |
| Matthew 5 3 |
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. |
| Proverbs 30 14 |
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men. |
| 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. |
| Job 3 14 |
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves; |
| Proverbs 14 31 |
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. |
| Psalms 74 21 |
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. |
| Psalms 62 10 |
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. |
| Psalms 10 2 |
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. |
| Matthew 26 11 |
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. |
| Proverbs 18 23 |
The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly. |
| Proverbs 31 7 |
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. |
| Micah 2 2 |
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. |
| Jeremiah 50 12 |
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. |
| Deuteronomy 8 9 |
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. |
| Proverbs 3 31 |
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. |
| Exodus 23 6 |
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. |
| Isaiah 26 6 |
The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. |
| Proverbs 31 9 |
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. |
| Proverbs 23 4 |
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. |
| Psalms 44 12 |
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. |
| Exodus 11 2 |
Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver and jewels of gold. |
| Zephaniah 3 10 |
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering. |
| Proverbs 16 19 |
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. |
| Psalms 107 39 |
Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. |