Luke 6:20

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Luke 6:20

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

He lifted

Matthew 5:2

Matthew 12:49

Mark 3:34

Blessed

Bible References

He lifted

Then he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

And he stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Look, my mother and my brothers.

And looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Look, my mother and my brothers.

Blessed

"But woe to you who are rich. For you have received your consolation.

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's. He has set the world on them.

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

The humble also will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be," says the LORD: "but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.

It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

For consider your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

"I know your afflictions and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.