Job 31:13-16
13 “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,when they brought a complaint against me,
14what then shall I do when God rises up?
When he amakes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
15Did bnot he who made me in the womb make him?
And did not one fashion us in the womb?
16 “If I have cwithheld anything that the poor desired,
or have dcaused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Job 36:5
5 “Behold, God is mighty, and edoes not despise any;he is fmighty in strength of understanding.
Proverbs 17:5
5Whoever mocks the poor ginsults his Maker;he who is hglad at calamity will not go iunpunished.
Proverbs 19:7
7 jAll a poor man’s brothers hate him;khow much more do his friends go far from him!
He pursues them with words, but does not have them. ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew sentence is uncertain
Proverbs 19:17
17 mWhoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord,and he nwill repay him for his odeed.
Proverbs 19:22
22What is desired in a man is steadfast love,and a poor man is better than a liar.
Matthew 6:25-26
Do Not Be Anxious
25 p“Therefore I tell you, qdo not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 rLook at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. sAre you not of more value than they?Matthew 11:5
5 tthe blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers ▼▼Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and vthe poor have good news preached to them. Matthew 26:11
11For wyou always have the poor with you, but xyou will not always have me.
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