Deuteronomy 15:7
7“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, ayou shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,Deuteronomy 15:9
9Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your beye look grudgingly ▼▼Or be evil; also verse 10
on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he dcry to the Lord against you, and eyou be guilty of sin. Deuteronomy 15:11
11For fthere will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, g‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’Psalms 62:9
9 hThose of low estate are but a breath;those of high estate iare a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
jthey are together lighter than a breath.
Proverbs 17:5
5Whoever mocks the poor kinsults his Maker;he who is lglad at calamity will not go munpunished.
Proverbs 19:1
1 nBetter is a poor person who owalks in his integritythan one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.
Luke 1:52
52 phe has brought down the mighty from their thronesqand exalted those of humble estate;
James 2:5-6
5Listen, my beloved brothers, rhas not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be srich in faith and heirs of tthe kingdom, uwhich he has promised to those who love him? 6But you vhave dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who wdrag you xinto court?
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