Isaiah 58:10
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10 (A)if you pour yourself out for the hungry
and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
(B)then shall your light rise in the darkness
and your gloom be as the noonday.
Isaiah 58:7-8
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7 Is it not (A)to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
(B)and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 (C)Then shall your light break forth like the dawn,
(D)and your healing shall spring up speedily;
(E)your righteousness shall go before you;
(F)the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
Psalm 37:6
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Job 11:17
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17 And your life will be (A)brighter than the noonday;
its darkness will be like the morning.
Isaiah 42:16
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16 (A)And I will lead the blind
in a way that they do not know,
in paths that they have not known
I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light,
(B)the rough places into level ground.
These are the things I do,
and I do not forsake them.
Proverbs 14:31
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31 Whoever oppresses a poor man (A)insults his (B)Maker,
(C)but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Luke 18:22
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22 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. (A)Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have (B)treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
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Isaiah 29:18
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18 In that day (A)the deaf shall hear
(B)the words of a book,
and out of their gloom and darkness
(C)the eyes of the blind shall see.
Proverbs 28:27
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Psalm 112:5-9
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5 It is well with the man who (A)deals generously and lends;
who conducts his affairs with justice.
6 For the righteous will (B)never be moved;
(C)he will be remembered forever.
7 He is not (D)afraid of bad news;
his (E)heart is firm, (F)trusting in the Lord.
8 His heart is steady;[a] he will not be afraid,
until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.
9 He has (G)distributed freely; he has given to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever;
his (H)horn is exalted in honor.
Footnotes
- Psalm 112:8 Or established (compare 111:8)
Psalm 41:1
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O Lord, Be Gracious to Me
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
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- Psalm 41:1 Or weak
Deuteronomy 15:7-10
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7 “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, (A)you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, 8 but (B)you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. 9 Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your (C)eye look grudgingly[a] on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he (D)cry to the Lord against you, and (E)you be guilty of sin. 10 You shall give to him freely, and (F)your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because (G)for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
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- Deuteronomy 15:9 Or be evil; also verse 10
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