For 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.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWith her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Proverbs
WisdomSanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
Exodus
LawThey cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Job
WisdomAnd the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
Judges
HistoryRemembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
Judges
History / SamuelWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Judges
HistoryWhere no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonCanst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
2 Kings
HistoryAnd it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBe thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.