Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
General references
Bible References
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Job 22:7
You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.
Deuteronomy 15:7
If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him;
Psalm 112:9
He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.
Luke 16:21
Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.
Acts 11:29
And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea:
Galatians 2:10
Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.
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Leviticus 23:22
And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God.
Matthew 5:42
Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.
James 2:15
If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,