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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Matthew 6:1 NT

  “Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

• Romans 12:13 NT

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

• Galatians 6:10 NT

  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.

• Psalms 74:19 OT

  Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

• Psalms 74:21 OT

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

• Psalms 41:1 OT

  Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

• Proverbs 22:9 OT

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

• Acts 20:35 NT

  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.’”

• Hebrews 13:16 NT

  But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

• Proverbs 28:27 OT

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

• Luke 14:13 NT

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

• Luke 14:14 NT

  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.”

• Proverbs 14:31 OT

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

• Proverbs 17:5 OT

  Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

• John 12:6 NT

  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.

• Job 24:4-10 OT

  They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves. Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children. They cut…

• Ezekiel 18:12 OT

  has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

• Ezekiel 22:20 OT

  As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.

• Amos 2:6 OT

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;

• Amos 4:1 OT

  Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

• Amos 5:11 OT

  Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

• Isaiah 3:15 OT

  What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

• Habakkuk 3:14 OT

  You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

• Psalms 10:2 OT

  In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.