KJV (145) the poor

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Exo 23:11But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
Exo 30:15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Lev 19:10And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
Lev 23:22And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Deu 15:11For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
1Sa 2:8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth 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 hath set the world upon them.
2Sa 12:3But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
2Sa 12:4And there came a traveler unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
2Ki 25:12But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
Est 9:22As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Job 5:15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5:16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job 20:10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
Job 20:19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he built not;
Job 24:4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job 24:14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Job 29:16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Job 30:25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job 34:19How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
Job 34:28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
Job 36:6He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
Job 36:15He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Psa 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.
Psa 10:2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psa 10:8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Psa 10:9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Psa 10:9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Psa 10:10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psa 10:14Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psa 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Psa 14:6Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Psa 35:10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
Psa 35:10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
Psa 37:14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Psa 41:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Psa 68:10Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
Psa 69:33For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Psa 72:4He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Psa 72:12For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
Psa 72:13He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
Psa 74:21O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Psa 82:3Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psa 82:4Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psa 107:41Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Psa 109:16Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psa 109:31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Psa 112:9He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.
Psa 113:7He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
Psa 140:12I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Pro 10:15The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Pro 13:8The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
Pro 13:23Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
Pro 14:20The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich hath many friends.
Pro 14:21He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Pro 14:31He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor.
Pro 14:31He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor.
Pro 17:5Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Pro 18:23The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
Pro 19:1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Pro 19:4Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
Pro 19:7All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
Pro 19:17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Pro 21:13Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Pro 22:7The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Pro 22:9He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Pro 22:16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Pro 22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Pro 28:3A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Pro 28:6Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Pro 28:8He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Pro 28:11The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Pro 28:15As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Pro 28:27He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Pro 29:7The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Pro 29:13The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
Pro 29:14The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established forever.
Pro 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Pro 31:9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Pro 31:20She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Ecc 5:8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Ecc 6:8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Ecc 9:16Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Isa 3:14The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Isa 3:15What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Isa 10:2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Isa 11:4But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Isa 14:30And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
Isa 14:32What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
Isa 25:4For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isa 26:6The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
Isa 29:19The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 32:7The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Isa 41:17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Isa 58:7Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Jer 2:34Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Jer 20:13Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
Jer 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
Jer 39:10But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
Jer 40:7Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
Jer 52:15Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
Jer 52:16But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
Eze 16:49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Eze 18:12Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
Eze 18:17That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
Eze 22:29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Dan 4:27Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Amo 2:6Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
Amo 2:7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
Amo 4:1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Amo 5:11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amo 5:12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Amo 8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Amo 8:6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Hab 3:14Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
Zec 7:10And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Zec 11:11And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Mat 5:3Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 11:5The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Mat 19:21Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Mat 26:9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
Mat 26:11For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Mar 10:21Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Mar 14:5For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
Mar 14:7For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
Luk 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 7:22Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Luk 14:13But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
Luk 14:21So that servant came, and showed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luk 18:22Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Luk 19:8And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Joh 12:5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
Joh 12:6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Joh 12:8For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
Joh 13:29For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
Rom 15:26For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
1Co 13:3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
2Co 9:9(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth forever.
Gal 2:10Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Jam 2:3And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
Jam 2:5Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Jam 2:6But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?