What Does The Bible Say About?

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Proverbs 19:17

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Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.

Hebrews 13:16

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And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Luke 6:38

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Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Deuteronomy 15:7-11

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If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother. Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs. Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand. For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.

Acts 20:35

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In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

2 Corinthians 9:7

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Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

Proverbs 22:9

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A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Luke 21:1-4

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Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” He said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

Luke 12:33

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Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Matthew 19:21

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Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Luke 3:11

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John replied, “Whoever has two tunics should share with him who has none, and whoever has food should do the same.”

Matthew 5:42

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Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

Malachi 3:10

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Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.

1 Timothy 5:8

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If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

James 5:1-6

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Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days. Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter. . . .

Mark 12:41-44

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As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts. Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius. Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury. For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

Ephesians 4:28

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He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.

Matthew 6:1-4

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“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Proverbs 21:13

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Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.

Deuteronomy 26:12

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When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.

Matthew 25:31-46

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When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on His right and the goats on His left. Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, . . .

James 1:27

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Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Luke 14:12-14

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Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid. But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind, and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Acts 4:32-35

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The multitude of believers was one in heart and soul. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they owned. With great power the apostles continued to give their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And abundant grace was upon them all. There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales, and lay them at the apostles’ feet for distribution to anyone as he had need.

Proverbs 14:31

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Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

Proverbs 14:21

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He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who shows kindness to the poor.

Proverbs 28:27

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Whoever gives to the poor will not be in need, but he who hides his eyes will receive many curses.

Acts 2:44-45

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All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.

James 1:17

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Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

Leviticus 19:9-10

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When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

Matthew 6:24

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No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Deuteronomy 15:10

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Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.

Psalm 112:9

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He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.

Romans 12:8

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if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

1 John 3:17

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If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

Deuteronomy 14:28-29

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At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates. Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

Proverbs 29:7

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The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.

Proverbs 3:27

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Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

Deuteronomy 15:7-8

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If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother. Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.

Proverbs 11:25

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A generous soul will prosper, and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.

Proverbs 21:26

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All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.

Proverbs 28:8

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He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.

1 John 3:17-18

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If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

1 Timothy 6:10

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For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

Galatians 2:10

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They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

Proverbs 31:8-9

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Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.

Psalm 24:1

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A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

1 Corinthians 13:3

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If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

2 Corinthians 8:12

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For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

Deuteronomy 15:11

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For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.

Esther 9:22

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as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

Luke 12:33-34

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Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Luke 6:30

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Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what is yours, do not demand it back.

Matthew 10:8

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Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.

Proverbs 11:24-25

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One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor. A generous soul will prosper, and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.

Proverbs 22:22-23

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Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate, for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

Psalm 113:7

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He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

Psalm 37:21

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The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.

Romans 12:13

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Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.

1 Timothy 6:17-19

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Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy. Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share, treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

2 Corinthians 8:9

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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

2 Corinthians 9:11

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You will be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, so that through us your giving will produce thanksgiving to God.

Hebrews 6:10

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For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

Isaiah 1:17

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Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

James 2:26

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As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

Jeremiah 22:16

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He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.

Psalm 140:12

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I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

1 Chronicles 29:14

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But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.

Leviticus 19:15

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You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

Proverbs 22:16

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Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.

Proverbs 3:9

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Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;

Psalm 82:3

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Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

2 Corinthians 9:10

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Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.

2 Corinthians 9:8

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And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

Isaiah 25:4

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For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

Isaiah 58:10

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and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

Matthew 25:40

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And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’

Romans 2:6-8

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God “will repay each one according to his deeds.” To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

2 Corinthians 8:5

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And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, because it was the will of God.

James 2:5

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Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

Leviticus 19:10

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You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

Luke 6:20-21

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Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Matthew 25:35

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For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,

Matthew 6:2-4

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So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Proverbs 17:5

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He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

Romans 12:1-21

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Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you. Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function, so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another. . . .

Romans 15:26

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For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

1 Timothy 6:17-18

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Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy. Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,

Deuteronomy 15:7

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If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

Isaiah 58:1-14

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“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins. For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.” “Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers. You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high. Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD? . . .

Isaiah 61:1

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The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

James 2:15-17

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Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that? So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.

Jeremiah 22:3

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This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Acts 2:1-4:37

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When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. . . .

Acts 24:17

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After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.

Ezekiel 16:49

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Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.

Luke 18:22

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On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Matthew 25:30-46

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And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on His right and the goats on His left. Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. . . .

Matthew 6:3-4

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But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Philippians 4:15-17

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And as you Philippians know, in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church but you partnered with me in the matter of giving and receiving. For even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs again and again. Not that I am seeking a gift, but I am looking for the fruit that may be credited to your account.

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