Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

As sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me.

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction.

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.