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
General references
Bible References
The poor
Matthew 26:11
for the poor you always have with you, but me you have not always.
Mark 14:7
The poor you have always with you, and you can do them good when you will; but me you have not always.
John 12:8
the poor you always have with you, but me you have not always.
Thou shalt
Matthew 5:42
Give to him that asks, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.
Luke 12:33
Sell your property and bestow charity; make yourselves purses that become not old, and a treasury that fails not, in heaven, where no thief approaches, nor moth destroys;
Acts 2:45
and they sold their possessions and estates, and distributed them to all as any one had need;
Acts 4:32
AND the multitude that believed had one heart and one soul, and none said that anything of his possessions was his; but they had all things common.
Acts 11:28
and one of them, by the name of Agabus, standing up signified by the spirit that a great famine was about to come on all the world; which also came under Claudius Caesar.
2 Corinthians 8:2
that in much trying affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
1 John 3:16
By this we have known love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
General references
Luke 6:34
And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what thanks have you? sinners also lend to sinners, to receive back as much again.