Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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Bible References
The brother
James 2:5
Listen, my dearly beloved brothers! Did God choose poor people in the world to be rich in faith and to receive the kingdom he promised to those who love him?
Deuteronomy 15:7
This is what you must do whenever there are poor Israelites in one of your cities in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you.
Psalm 62:9
Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
Proverbs 17:5
When you mock the poor you disgrace your Maker. He who is glad at calamity will be punished.
Proverbs 19:1
Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.
Luke 1:52
He removes rulers from their thrones and exalts the humble.
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James 2:5
Listen, my dearly beloved brothers! Did God choose poor people in the world to be rich in faith and to receive the kingdom he promised to those who love him?
1 Samuel 2:8
He raises the poor from the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to set them among the princes. He causes them to inherit a throne of glory (honor). The pillars of the earth are Jehovah's. He sets the world on them.
Psalm 113:7
He lifts the poor from the dust. He lifts the needy from a garbage heap.
Luke 9:48
Then he said to them: Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. He who is least among you will be the greatest!
Luke 10:20
Do not rejoice about this that the spirits are subject to you. Rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.
Romans 8:17
If children, then heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him we may also be glorified with him.
2 Corinthians 6:10
Also as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 2:9
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God's own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 John 3:1
Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him.
Revelation 2:9
I know your troubles. I know that you are poor, but you are rich! I know the evil things said against you by those who claim to be Jews but are not. Their synagogue belongs to Satan!
Revelation 5:9
They sing a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you bought persons for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
Revelation 7:9
After this I saw a great crowd that no man could number. It was from all nations, and tribes, and people, and tongues. It stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes. They had palm branches in their hands.
General references
Psalm 49:2
Listen you common people and important ones, rich people and poor ones.
2 Corinthians 10:17
But he who boasts let him boast in Jehovah! (Jeremiah 9:24)