But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Matthew
GospelsThere is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
Job
WisdomThose things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
Acts
HistoryFor, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosBefore I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Job
WisdomAre there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThis also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Job
WisdomI will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Exodus
LawAnd Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
Numbers
LawThe LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn him was life; and the life was the light of men.
John
GospelsThen I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
Matthew
GospelsAnd looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
Mark
GospelsAnd the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
Exodus
Law / MosesRemove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe 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.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.