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    Don't take advantage of the poor or cheat them in court.
  2. It will make you feel drowsy, and you will end up poor with only rags to wear.
  3. When someone poor takes over and mistreats the poor, it's like a heavy rain destroying the crops.
  4. It's better to be poor and live right, than to be rich and dishonest.
  5. If you make money by charging high interest rates, you will lose it all to someone who cares for the poor.
  6. The rich think highly of themselves, but anyone poor and sensible sees right through them.
  7. A ruler who mistreats the poor is like a roaring lion or a bear hunting for food.
  8. Giving to the poor will keep you from poverty, but if you close your eyes to their needs, everyone will curse you.
  9. The wicked don't care about the rights of the poor, but good people do.
  10. The poor and all who abuse them must each depend on God for light.
  11. Kings who are fair to the poor will rule a long time.
  12. Make me absolutely honest and don't let me be too poor or too rich. Give me just what I need.
  13. others are so greedy that they gobble up the poor and homeless.
  14. Drinking makes you forget your responsibilities, and you mistreat the poor.
  15. Let them drink and forget how poor and miserable they feel.
  16. Be fair and give justice to the poor and homeless.
  17. and she helps the poor and the needy.
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26 topical index results for “poor”

COLLECTION : (Of money, for the poor people)
LAND : To rest every seventh year for the benefit of the poor people (Exodus 23:11)
PHILANTHROPY : See POOR
POTTERY : Place for manufacture of, outside the wall of Jerusalem, bought as a burying ground for poor people (Matthew 27:7-10)
SELFISHNESS : See POOR
AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES » UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO » See POOR
ALMS » COMMANDMENTS AND PRACTICES CONCERNING » See POOR
BEGGARS » INSTANCES OF » See POOR
CHURCH » MISCELLANY OF MINOR SUB-TOPICS » CONGREGATION OF THE LORD'S POOR (Psalms 74:19)
DISHONESTY » INSTANCES OF » Judas' hypocritical sympathy for the poor ( John 12:6)
INCONSISTENCY » INSTANCES OF » The Jews, in oppressing the poor (Nehemiah 5:9)
ISRAEL, PROPHECIES CONCERNING » (For the history of the above kings see under each » The poorest of the people were left to occupy the country, and were joined by fragments of the army of Judah, the dispersed Israelites in other lands, and the king's daughters (2 Kings 25:12,22,23; Jeremiah 39:10;40:7-12;52:16)
LIBERALITY » INSTANCES OF » The poor widow (Luke 21:2-4)