| Psalms 51 16 |
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. |
| Mark 14 7 |
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 11 |
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. |
| Proverbs 10 2 |
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. |
| Isaiah 52 3 |
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. |
| Isaiah 57 12 |
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. |
| Numbers 11 13 |
Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. |
| Proverbs 11 4 |
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death. |
| 1 Corinthians 13 2 |
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. |
| Ezekiel 7 21 |
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. |
| 1 Samuel 25 11 |
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be? |
| Revelation 3 17 |
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: |
| Ezekiel 34 3 |
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. |
| Hosea 6 6 |
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
| James 2 16 |
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? |
| Leviticus 25 47 |
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: |
| Isaiah 55 2 |
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. |
| Luke 12 33 |
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. |
| Psalms 44 12 |
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 21 |
For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. |
| Luke 18 22 |
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. |
| Isaiah 43 24 |
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. |
| Job 31 16 |
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; |
| Isaiah 44 15 |
Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. |
| Romans 7 18 |
For I know that in me that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. |
| Luke 1 53 |
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. |
| Luke 6 35 |
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. |
| Haggai 1 6 |
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. |
| Amos 8 6 |
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? |
| Psalms 30 9 |
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? |
| Acts 20 20 |
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, |
| Ecclesiastes 7 16 |
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ? |
| Proverbs 19 17 |
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. |
| 1 Chronicles 21 24 |
And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. |
| 1 Corinthians 13 4 |
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, |
| Jeremiah 12 13 |
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD. |
| Malachi 3 14 |
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? |
| Matthew 13 12 |
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. |
| Amos 8 4 |
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, |
| Matthew 25 29 |
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. |
| 1 Peter 5 2 |
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; |
| 1 Corinthians 7 35 |
And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. |
| Job 30 25 |
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? |
| Jeremiah 15 13 |
Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. |
| 1 Corinthians 3 15 |
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. |
| 1 Corinthians 13 8 |
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. |
| Mark 12 15 |
Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it. |
| Hebrews 10 34 |
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. |
| Proverbs 29 7 |
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it. |
| Proverbs 14 31 |
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. |