Poor

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Ephesians 4:28 NT

  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 NT

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

• 1 Timothy 5:10 NT

  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 NT

  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 NT

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

• James 1:27 NT

  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 2:2-9 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…

• James 2:15 NT

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

• James 2:16 NT

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

• James 5:4 NT

  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 3:17-19 NT

  But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and…

• Matthew 5:3 NT

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

• Luke 6:20 NT

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

• Isaiah 66:2 OT

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

• Job 5:15 OT

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

• Job 5:16 OT

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

• Job 31:15 OT

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

• Job 34:18 OT

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

• Job 34:28 OT

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

• Job 36:6 OT

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

• Job 36:15 OT

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

• Psalms 9:18 OT

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

• Psalms 10:14 OT

  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 OT

  “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.”