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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Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
Psalms
PoetryConsider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThey have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsHe is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Job
WisdomTo declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be their's.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobFathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
Joshua
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.
Judges
HistoryAnd build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
Judges
History / SamuelThen the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:
Numbers
LawBecause there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor, 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.