²² The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

⁶ And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

⁷ For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

⁸ She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

¹² For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

² How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

³ For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;

⁴¹ And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

⁴² And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

⁴³ And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:

⁴⁴ For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

19 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

² In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

⁹ Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

⁵ He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

¹⁵ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;