Additional Scripture References for Biblical Perspectives on Dealing with Poverty
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Luke 10:27 (NKJV)
27.  So he answered and said, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself."





Ephesians 5:1-2 (NKJV)
1.  Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.
2.  And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.


Psalm 68:5-6 (NKJV)
5.  A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy habitation.
6.  God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.


Job 29:11-17 (NKJV)
11.  When the ear heard, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw, then it approved me;
12.  Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless and the one who had no helper.
13.  The blessing of a perishing man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14.  I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
15.  I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame.
16.  I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the case that I did not know.
17.  I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the victim from his teeth.







Job 31:16-23 (NKJV)
16.  If I have kept the poor from their desire, or caused the eye of the widow to fail,
17.  Or eaten my morsel by myself, so that the fatherless could not eat of it
18.  (But from my youth I reared him as a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow);
19.  If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or any poor man without covering;
20.  If his heart has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21.  If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate;
22.  Then let my arm fall from my shoulder, Let my arm be torn from the socket.
23.  For destruction from God is a terror to me, and because of His magnificence I cannot endure.


Isaiah 1:16-17 (NKJV)
16.  Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.  Cease to do evil,
17.  Learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.


Ezekiel 16:49
49.  Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy
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