BEGGARS

Passages on this topic · 14

• 1 Samuel 2:8

  He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

• Psalms 37:25

  I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

• Psalms 109:10

  Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

• Proverbs 20:4

  The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

• Mark 10:46

  They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

• Luke 16:3

  “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

• Luke 16:20

  A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,

• Luke 16:21

  and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

• Luke 16:22

  The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

• John 9:8

  The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

• Acts 3:2

  A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

• Acts 3:3

  Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.

• Acts 3:4

  Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look at us.”

• Acts 3:5

  He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.