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.

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.