Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Genesis
Law / MosesIn the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Proverbs
WisdomBut he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.
Luke
GospelsAnd Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
Numbers
LawAnd there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
Acts
History / LukeBut all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
Deuteronomy
LawWhich knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Acts
History / LukeNow these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
Judges
History / SamuelNow I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd 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.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers
LawShall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;
Judges
HistoryO LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Psalms
PoetryThat they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,