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

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen a righteous man forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg, and let them seek out of their desolate places.

And they come to Jericho. And as he went out from Jericho, and his disciples and a considerable crowd, Bartimaeus, the blind son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road begging.

But there was a certain poor man named Lazarus, who had been placed near his gate, covered with sores,

And it came to pass for the poor man to die and be carried by the heavenly agents to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried.

And it came to pass as he approached Jericho, a certain blind man sat beside the road begging.

The neighbors therefore and those who saw him formerly, that he was blind, said, Is this not he who sits and begs?

And a certain man, being lame from his mother's belly, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask charity from those who entered into the temple,