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

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

Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg; let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

And so they come to Jericho, and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.

and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores

And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom; the rich man also died and was buried;

And it came to pass that as he came near unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat beside the way begging,

The neighbours, therefore, and those who before had seen him that he was blind said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of those that entered into the temple,