Poor

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• 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 15:2-14 OT

  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. Of a foreigner you may…

• Deuteronomy 24:12-21 OT

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

• Deuteronomy 26:12 OT

  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…

• Deuteronomy 26:13 OT

  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…

• Psalms 37:21 OT

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

• Psalms 37:26 OT

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

• Psalms 41:1-3 OT

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

• Psalms 112:4 OT

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

• Psalms 112:5 OT

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

• Psalms 112:9 OT

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

• Proverbs 28:27 OT

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

• Proverbs 29:7 OT

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

• Proverbs 31:9 OT

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

• Proverbs 31:20 OT

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

• Isaiah 1:17 OT

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

• Isaiah 16:3 OT

  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 OT

  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 58:7 OT

  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 OT

  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;

• Ezekiel 18:7 OT

  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 OT

  hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

• Ezekiel 18:17 OT

  who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or 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 OT

  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. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”