Exodus 23:3

³ Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23:6

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Exodus 22:25

²⁵ If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

Exodus 22:26

²⁶ If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

Exodus 22:27

²⁷ For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

Leviticus 19:15

¹⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Leviticus 25:35

³⁵ And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

Leviticus 25:36

³⁶ Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Leviticus 25:37

³⁷ Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

Leviticus 25:39

³⁹ And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

Leviticus 25:40

⁴⁰ But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

Leviticus 25:41

⁴¹ And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

Leviticus 25:42

⁴² For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

Leviticus 25:43

⁴³ Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.

Deuteronomy 15:2

² And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.

Deuteronomy 15:3

³ Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

Deuteronomy 15:4

⁴ Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:

Deuteronomy 15:5

⁵ Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

⁶ For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

Deuteronomy 15:7

⁷ If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

Deuteronomy 15:8

⁸ But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

Deuteronomy 15:9

⁹ Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Deuteronomy 14:28

²⁸ At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

Deuteronomy 14:29

²⁹ And the Levite, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

Deuteronomy 15:10

¹⁰ Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

Deuteronomy 15:11

¹¹ For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Deuteronomy 15:12

¹² And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

Deuteronomy 15:13

¹³ And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

Deuteronomy 15:14

¹⁴ Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

Deuteronomy 24:12

¹² And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

Deuteronomy 24:13

¹³ In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 24:14

¹⁴ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

Deuteronomy 24:15

¹⁵ At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

Deuteronomy 24:17

¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

Deuteronomy 24:18

¹⁸ But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

Deuteronomy 24:19

¹⁹ When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

Deuteronomy 24:20

²⁰ When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:21

²¹ When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deuteronomy 26:12

¹² When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

Deuteronomy 26:13

¹³ Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

1 Samuel 2:7

⁷ The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

1 Kings 17:12

¹² And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

Job 24:4

⁴ They turn the needy out of the way: the poor poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Job 24:5

⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

Job 24:6

⁶ They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

Job 24:7

⁷ They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

Job 24:8

⁸ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Job 24:9

⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

Job 20:10

¹⁰ His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

Job 20:19

¹⁹ Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Job 20:29

²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Job 24:10

¹⁰ They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

Job 29:12

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Job 29:13

¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Job 31:15

¹⁵ Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 31:16

¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Job 31:17

¹⁷ Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Job 31:18

¹⁸ For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;

Job 31:19

¹⁹ If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

Job 31:20

²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Job 31:21

²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Job 31:22

²² Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

Job 34:19

¹⁹ How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

Psalms 10:2

² The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalms 10:8

⁸ He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

Psalms 10:9

⁹ He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

Psalms 41:1

¹ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

Psalms 41:2

² The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

Psalms 41:3

³ The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Psalms 70:5

⁵ But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

Psalms 72:2

² He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

Psalms 82:3

³ Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Psalms 82:4

⁴ Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

Psalms 10:10

¹⁰ He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor poor may fall by his strong ones.

Psalms 10:14

¹⁴ Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Psalms 112:5

⁵ A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

Psalms 113:7

⁷ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

Psalms 35:10

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

Psalms 37:16

¹⁶ A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

Psalms 37:26

²⁶ He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

Psalms 109:16

¹⁶ Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

Proverbs 10:4

⁴ He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Proverbs 13:7

⁷ There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Proverbs 13:8

⁸ The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

Proverbs 19:4

⁴ Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

Proverbs 22:7

⁷ The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. lender.

Proverbs 28:8

⁸ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Proverbs 30:9

⁹ Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

Proverbs 10:15

¹⁵ The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

Proverbs 14:20

²⁰ The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

Proverbs 14:21

²¹ He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, poor, happy is he.

Proverbs 14:31

³¹ He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

Proverbs 18:23

²³ The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.

Proverbs 20:13

¹³ Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 21:17

¹⁷ He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Proverbs 23:21

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Proverbs 28:11

¹¹ The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

Proverbs 28:19

¹⁹ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Proverbs 28:27

²⁷ He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

Proverbs 31:20

²⁰ She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

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