Exo 23:11But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poorH34 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. ▼
Deu 15:4Save when there shall be no poorH34 among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: ▼
Deu 15:7¶ If there be among you a poor manH34 of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poorH34 brother:
Deu 15:9Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poorH34 brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. ▼▼
Deu 15:11For the poorH34 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 needyH34, in thy land.
Deu 24:14¶ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needyH34, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
1Sa 2:8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggarH34 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.
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 poorH34.
Psa 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needyH34, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at 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 needyH34 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 needyH34, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. ▼
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 needyH34 from among men.
Isa 14:30And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needyH34 shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
Isa 25:4For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needyH34 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 32:7The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needyH34 speaketh right. ▼
Isa 41:17When the poor and needyH34 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.
Jer 5:28They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needyH34 do they not judge.