Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
The poor
Thou shalt
General references
Bible References
The poor
Proverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor, meet together, the maker of them all, is Yahweh.
Matthew 26:11
For, always, the destitute, have ye with you, - but, me, not always, have ye;
Mark 14:7
For, always, have ye, the destitute, with you, and whensoever ye please, ye can, unto them, at any timedo well! But, me, not, always, have ye.
John 12:8
For, the destitute, always, have ye with you, whereas, me, not always, have ye.
Thou shalt
Deuteronomy 15:8
but thou shalt, open, thy hand unto him, - and, lend, him enough to meet the poverty which doth impoverish him.
Matthew 5:42
To him who is asking thee, give; and, him who is desiring from thee to borrow, do not thou turn away.
Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions, and give alms, make for yourselves purses that wax not old, - treasure unfailing, in the heavens, where, thief, doth not draw near, and, moth, doth not spoil.
Acts 2:45
and, their possessions and goods, were they selling and distributing them unto all, in so far as anyone had need.
Acts 4:32
And, the throng of them that believed, had one heart and soul, and not so much as one was saying that, aught of his goods, was, his own, but they had all things common.
Acts 11:28
And one from among them, by name Agabus, rising up, gave a sign, through means of the Spirit, that, a great famine, was coming over all the inhabited earth; which, indeed, came to pass under Claudius.
2 Corinthians 8:2
That, in a great testing of tribulation, the superabounding of their joy and their deep destitution, superabounded unto the riches of their liberality;
1 John 3:16
Hereby, have we come to understand love: in that, He, for us, his life laid down; and, we, ought, for the brethren, our lives to lay down.
General references
Luke 6:34
And, if ye lend to them from whom ye are hoping to receive, what sort of thanks are there for you? Even sinners, unto sinners, do lend, that they may receive back, as much.