I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.


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Psalms 82 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Job 29 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Job 30 25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Proverbs 29 7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
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.
Matthew 26 11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Job 31 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Psalms 9 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Job 31 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Psalms 109 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
1 Thessalonians 2 11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
Amos 8 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
John 12 8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
Jeremiah 22 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
Psalms 109 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
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.
Isaiah 22 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
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.
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.
Proverbs 4 3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Psalms 40 17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Proverbs 13 22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Luke 2 49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
Psalms 10 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
1 Corinthians 13 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Ecclesiastes 5 14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
1 John 2 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
John 10 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Job 20 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
Jeremiah 3 24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Psalms 35 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
Proverbs 17 6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Matthew 5 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Psalms 82 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Proverbs 19 1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Psalms 113 7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
Judges 9 17 For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
Psalms 107 41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Proverbs 14 31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Proverbs 13 8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
Lamentations 5 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Job 22 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Psalms 41 1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
John 12 6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Deuteronomy 26 7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
Psalms 86 1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
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,
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.
Psalms 68 5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Lamentations 1 16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.