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Proverbs 19 4 Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Proverbs 11 24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Proverbs 22 2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Proverbs 18 23 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
Amos 8 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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 22 22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Psalms 82 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Proverbs 14 20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
Proverbs 28 3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Matthew 5 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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 29 7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Job 29 16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Genesis 43 1 And the famine was sore in the land.
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?
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 24 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs 13 23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
Proverbs 10 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs 30 8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Proverbs 6 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
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.
Luke 15 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
Psalms 49 2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
Psalms 107 39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
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.
Psalms 9 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Job 24 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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.
Proverbs 31 7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Genesis 41 19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
Jeremiah 5 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
Job 3 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
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?
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.
Psalms 86 1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Amos 4 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
John 5 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Matthew 26 11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Psalms 10 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 41 1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Proverbs 14 31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Proverbs 22 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
James 2 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Psalms 74 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
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.
2 Corinthians 6 10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Proverbs 31 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Psalms 109 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.