He 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.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Job
WisdomAnd he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBehold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Acts
HistoryThou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
Acts
History / LukeYe have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsAnd if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Exodus
LawWere they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
John
Gospels / JohnFor they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
Acts
HistoryAnd the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraYour gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
James
General EpistlesAnd Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
Judges
HistoryThrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Exodus
LawAnd the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsPurge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psalms
PoetryAnd being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: