I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’
“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
Nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.
For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.
They have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess—
“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.
“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”
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