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• Exodus 22:25

  “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

• Exodus 22:26

  If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

• Exodus 22:27

  for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

• Exodus 23:3

  You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

• Exodus 23:6

  “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

• Exodus 23:11

  but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

• Exodus 30:15

  The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

• Leviticus 5:7

  “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 12:8

  If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”

• Leviticus 14:21

  “If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;

• Leviticus 14:22

  and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 19:9

  “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

• Leviticus 19:10

  You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 19:15

  “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

• Leviticus 23:22

  “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”

• Leviticus 25:25

  “‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

• Leviticus 25:26

  If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

• Leviticus 25:27

  then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

• Leviticus 25:28

  But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

• Leviticus 25:35

  “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

• Leviticus 25:36

  Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

• Leviticus 25:37

  You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

• Leviticus 25:39

  “‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

• Leviticus 25:40

  As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

• Leviticus 25:41

  then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

• Leviticus 25:42

  For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

• Leviticus 25:43

  You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

• Deuteronomy 14:28

  At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 14:29

  The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

• Deuteronomy 15:2

  This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.

• Deuteronomy 15:3

  Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.

• Deuteronomy 15:4

  However there shall be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it)

• Deuteronomy 15:5

  if only you diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.

• Deuteronomy 15:6

  For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

• Deuteronomy 15:7

  If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

• Deuteronomy 15:8

  but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

• Deuteronomy 15:9

  Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

• Deuteronomy 15:10

  You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

• Deuteronomy 15:11

  For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

• Deuteronomy 15:12

  If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

• Deuteronomy 15:13

  When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.

• Deuteronomy 15:14

  You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

• Deuteronomy 24:12

  If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

• Deuteronomy 24:13

  You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 24:14

  You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 24:15

  In his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

• Deuteronomy 24:16

  The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

• Deuteronomy 24:17

  You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

• Deuteronomy 24:18

  but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

• Deuteronomy 24:19

  When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

• Deuteronomy 24:20

  When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 24:21

  When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 26:12

  When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.

• Deuteronomy 26:13

  You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

• Ruth 2:14

  At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.

• Ruth 2:15

  When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.

• Ruth 2:16

  Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”

• Ruth 2:23

  So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

• 1 Samuel 2:7

  Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

• 1 Kings 17:12

  She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

• 1 Kings 17:13

  Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

• 1 Kings 17:14

  For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”

• 1 Kings 17:15

  She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.

• 1 Kings 17:16

  The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil did not fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.

• 1 Kings 17:17

  After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

• 1 Kings 17:18

  She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

• 1 Kings 17:19

  He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

• 1 Kings 17:20

  He cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”

• 1 Kings 17:21

  He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”

• 1 Kings 17:22

  Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

• 1 Kings 17:23

  Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”

• 1 Kings 17:24

  The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”

• 2 Kings 4:1

  Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

• 2 Kings 4:2

  Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”

• 2 Kings 4:3

  Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from of all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.

• 2 Kings 4:4

  Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”

• 2 Kings 4:5

  So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.

• 2 Kings 4:6

  When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

• 2 Kings 4:7

  Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”

• Nehemiah 5:1

  Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

• Nehemiah 5:2

  For there were that said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

• Nehemiah 5:3

  There were also some that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

• Nehemiah 5:4

  There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

• Nehemiah 5:5

  Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

• Nehemiah 5:6

  I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

• Nehemiah 5:7

  Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

• Nehemiah 5:8

  I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

• Nehemiah 5:9

  Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

• Nehemiah 5:10

  I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

• Nehemiah 5:11

  Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

• Nehemiah 8:10

  Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

• Nehemiah 8:12

  All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

• Esther 9:22

  as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

• Job 5:15

  But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

• Job 5:16

  So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

• Job 29:11

  For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

• Job 29:12

  Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

• Job 29:13

  the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

• Job 29:14

  I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

• Job 29:15

  I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

• Job 29:16

  I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.

• Job 30:25

  Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

• Job 31:15

  Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

• Job 31:16

  “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

• Job 31:17

  or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

• Job 31:18

  (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her I have guided from my mother’s womb);

• Job 31:19

  if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

• Job 31:20

  if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

• Job 31:21

  if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

• Job 31:22

  then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

• Job 31:38

  If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

• Job 31:39

  if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

• Job 31:40

  let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

• Job 34:18

  Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

• Job 34:19

  Who doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

• Job 34:28

  so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

• Job 36:6

  He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

• Job 36:15

  He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

• Psalms 9:18

  For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

• Psalms 10:14

  But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

• Psalms 12:5

  “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

• Psalms 14:6

  You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

• Psalms 34:6

  This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

• Psalms 35:10

  All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

• Psalms 37:16

  Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

• Psalms 37:21

  The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

• Psalms 37:26

  All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

• Psalms 41:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

• Psalms 41:2

  Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

• Psalms 41:3

  Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

• Psalms 68:10

  Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

• Psalms 69:33

  For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

• Psalms 72:2

  He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

• Psalms 72:4

  He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

• Psalms 72:12

  For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

• Psalms 72:13

  He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

• Psalms 72:14

  He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

• Psalms 74:21

  Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

• Psalms 82:3

  “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

• Psalms 82:4

  Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

• Psalms 102:17

  He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

• Psalms 107:9

  For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

• Psalms 107:36

  There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

• Psalms 107:41

  Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

• Psalms 109:16

  because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

• Psalms 109:31

  For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

• Psalms 112:4

  Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

• Psalms 112:5

  It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

• Psalms 112:9

  He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

• Psalms 113:7

  He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

• Psalms 113:8

  that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

• Psalms 132:15

  I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.

• Psalms 140:12

  I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

• Psalms 146:5

  Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

• Psalms 146:7

  who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

• Proverbs 10:15

  The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

• Proverbs 13:7

  There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

• Proverbs 13:8

  The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

• Proverbs 13:23

  An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

• Proverbs 14:20

  The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

• Proverbs 14:21

  He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

• Proverbs 14:31

  He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

• Proverbs 18:23

  The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

• Proverbs 19:1

  Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

• Proverbs 19:4

  Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

• Proverbs 19:7

  All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

• Proverbs 19:17

  He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

• Proverbs 19:22

  That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

• Proverbs 20:13

  Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

• Proverbs 21:13

  Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

• Proverbs 22:2

  The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

• Proverbs 22:9

  He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

• Proverbs 22:22

  Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

• Proverbs 22:23

  for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

• Proverbs 23:21

  for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

• Proverbs 28:6

  Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

• Proverbs 28:8

  He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

• Proverbs 28:11

  The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

• Proverbs 28:19

  One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

• Proverbs 28:27

  One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

• Proverbs 29:7

  The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

• Proverbs 29:13

  The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

• Proverbs 29:14

  The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

• Proverbs 31:9

  Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

• Proverbs 31:20

  She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

• Ecclesiastes 4:6

  Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 4:13

  Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

• Ecclesiastes 5:8

  If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

• Ecclesiastes 6:8

  For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

• Ecclesiastes 9:15

  Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

• Ecclesiastes 9:16

  Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

• Isaiah 11:4

  but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

• Isaiah 14:30

  The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

• Isaiah 14:32

  What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

• Isaiah 16:3

  Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

• Isaiah 16:4

  Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

• Isaiah 21:14

  They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

• Isaiah 25:4

  For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

• Isaiah 29:19

  The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 41:17

  The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

• Isaiah 58:7

  Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

• Isaiah 58:10

  and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

• Isaiah 66:2

  For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

• Jeremiah 20:13

  Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

• Jeremiah 22:16

  He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 39:10

  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

• Ezekiel 16:49

  “‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

• Ezekiel 18:7

  and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

• Ezekiel 18:16

  neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

• Ezekiel 18:17

  who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

• Daniel 4:27

  Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

• Zephaniah 3:12

  But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

• Zechariah 7:10

  Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

• Zechariah 11:7

  So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

• Matthew 5:3

  “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Matthew 5:42

  Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

• Matthew 11:5

  the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

• Matthew 19:21

  Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

• Matthew 25:35

  for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

• Matthew 25:36

  I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

• Matthew 25:42

  for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

• Matthew 25:45

  “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

• Matthew 26:11

  For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

• Mark 12:43

  He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,

• Mark 12:44

  for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”

• Mark 14:7

  For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

• Luke 3:11

  He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

• Luke 4:18

  “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

• Luke 6:20

  He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

• Luke 6:30

  Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

• Luke 6:31

  “As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

• Luke 6:32

  If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

• Luke 6:33

  If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

• Luke 6:34

  If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

• Luke 6:35

  But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

• Luke 7:22

  Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

• Luke 10:33

  But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

• Luke 10:34

  came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

• Luke 10:35

  On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’

• Luke 11:41

  But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

• Luke 12:33

  Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

• Luke 14:12

  He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

• Luke 14:13

  But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

• Luke 14:14

  and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

• 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.

• Luke 18:22

  When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”

• Luke 19:8

  Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

• John 12:6

  Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

• Acts 6:1

  Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

• Acts 9:36

  Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

• Acts 10:2

  a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

• Acts 10:4

  He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

• Acts 11:29

  As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

• Acts 11:30

  which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

• Acts 20:35

  In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

• Romans 12:8

  or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

• Romans 12:13

  contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

• Romans 12:20

  Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

• Romans 15:25

  But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

• Romans 15:26

  For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

• 1 Corinthians 16:1

  Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

• 1 Corinthians 16:2

  On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

• 2 Corinthians 6:10

  as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

• 2 Corinthians 8:1

  Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;

• 2 Corinthians 8:2

  how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

• 2 Corinthians 8:3

  For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

• 2 Corinthians 8:4

  begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

• 2 Corinthians 8:5

  This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

• 2 Corinthians 8:9

  For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

• 2 Corinthians 9:5

  I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

• 2 Corinthians 9:6

  Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

• 2 Corinthians 9:7

  Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

• Galatians 2:10

  They only asked us to remember the poor — which very thing I was also zealous to do.

• Galatians 6:10

  So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

• Ephesians 4:28

  Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

• 1 Timothy 5:9

  Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

• 1 Timothy 5:10

  being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

• 1 Timothy 5:16

  If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

• Hebrews 13:3

  Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

• James 1:9

  But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

• James 1:10

  and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

• James 1:27

  Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

• James 2:2

  For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;

• James 2:3

  and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, “Sit here in a good place”; and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”;

• James 2:4

  haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

• James 2:5

  Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

• James 2:6

  But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

• James 2:7

  Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

• James 2:8

  However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

• James 2:9

  But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

• James 2:15

  And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

• James 2:16

  and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled”; and yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

• James 5:4

  Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

• 1 John 3:17

  But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

• 1 John 3:18

  My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

• 1 John 3:19

  And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,