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Proverbs 22 7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 11 16 A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.
Proverbs 22 2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Proverbs 23 4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
1 Corinthians 9 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Psalms 49 6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Proverbs 8 18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Proverbs 19 4 Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Psalms 75 6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Psalms 62 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Romans 12 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Proverbs 16 19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 3 35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Proverbs 10 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
1 Corinthians 10 24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
Proverbs 29 14 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
Titus 3 1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Ezekiel 16 31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
Proverbs 22 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Proverbs 3 31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Ecclesiastes 9 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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 24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
Ephesians 1 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Ecclesiastes 8 9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
Psalms 49 2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
Psalms 94 2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
Ecclesiastes 10 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
Proverbs 28 11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Proverbs 18 12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Proverbs 27 24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Proverbs 18 11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
Proverbs 12 24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Jeremiah 9 23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
Psalms 82 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
1 Corinthians 12 23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
Matthew 5 5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Galatians 5 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Colossians 4 1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
1 Timothy 6 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
Proverbs 22 4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
Proverbs 11 2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 14 18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
2 Timothy 2 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
Romans 11 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Job 42 15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
Job 24 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
1 Corinthians 7 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
Ecclesiastes 1 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Psalms 119 121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.