Poor

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Exodus 30:15 OT

  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 OT

  “ ‘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 OT

  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. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’ ”

• Leviticus 14:21 OT

  “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 mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;

• Leviticus 14:22 OT

  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.

• Exodus 23:3 OT

  You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

• Exodus 23:6 OT

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

• Leviticus 19:15 OT

  “ ‘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.

• 1 Samuel 2:7 OT

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

• Nehemiah 8:10 OT

  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 OT

  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.

• Job 29:11-13 OT

  For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me: Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me,…

• Job 29:15 OT

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

• Job 29:16 OT

  I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

• Job 30:25 OT

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

• Job 31:15-22 OT

  Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb? “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of…

• Job 34:19 OT

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

• Psalms 37:16 OT

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

• Psalms 82:3 OT

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

• Psalms 82:4 OT

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

• Psalms 109:16 OT

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

• Proverbs 10:15 OT

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

• Proverbs 13:7 OT

  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 OT

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