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 poor one met together: Jehovah made them all.
Matthew 26:11
For always the poor ye have with you, but me ye have not always.
Mark 14:7
For always have ye the poor with you, and when ye wish ye can do them good: and me ye have not always.
John 12:8
For the poor have ye always with you;and me ye have not always.
Thou shalt
Deuteronomy 15:8
For opening, thou shalt open thy hand to him, and lending, thou shalt lend him a sufficiency for his want which he shall want
Matthew 5:42
To him asking thee, give thou, and him wishing to borrow from thee, thou shouldst not turn away.
Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts.
Acts 2:45
And sold possessions and goods, and divided them to all, as any one had need
Acts 4:32
And the heart and soul of the multitude of them believing were one: and not one said any of the things being to him to be his own; but all were common to them.
Acts 11:28
And one of them having risen, Agabus by name, signified by the Holy Spirit a great famine was about to be upon the whole habitable globe: which was during Claudius Caesar.
2 Corinthians 8:2
That in much proof of pressure the abundance of their joy and their poverty according to depth abounded to the abundance of their simplicity.
1 John 3:16
In this have we known love, for he set his soul for us: and we ought to set the souls for the brethren.
General references
Luke 6:34
And if ye lend of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace is to you? for also the sinful lend to the sinful, that they might receive back the like things.