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 have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
Matthew 26:11
For you always have the poor with you; but you don't always have me.
Mark 14:7
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
John 12:8
For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
Thou shalt
Deuteronomy 15:8
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
Matthew 5:42
Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
Luke 12:33
Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
Acts 2:45
They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
Acts 4:32
The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
Acts 11:28
One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.
2 Corinthians 8:2
how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
1 John 3:16
By this we know 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
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.