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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Deuteronomy 15:7 OT

  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;

• Leviticus 25:39 OT

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

• Leviticus 25:43 OT

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

• Deuteronomy 24:14 OT

  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.

• Zechariah 7:10 OT

  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.’

• Proverbs 14:21 OT

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

• James 2:2-4 NT

  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, and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell…

• Leviticus 25:35 OT

  “ ‘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.

• Matthew 19:21 NT

  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.”

• 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.”

• Jeremiah 22:3 OT

  Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

• Jeremiah 22:16 OT

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

• Psalms 112:9 OT

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

• 2 Corinthians 9:9 NT

  As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

• Proverbs 29:7 OT

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

• Luke 3:11 NT

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

• 2 Corinthians 8:7 NT

  But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

• 2 Corinthians 8:8 NT

  I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

• Galatians 2:10 NT

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

• Deuteronomy 15:10 OT

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

• 2 Corinthians 9:7 NT

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

• Deuteronomy 14:29 OT

  The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless…

• Deuteronomy 15:8 OT

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