“Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the proceeds given to poor people?”

Now he said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he kept the money box, he used to steal from what was put into it.

For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”

For some were assuming, since Judas kept the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we need for the feast”; or else, that he was to give something to the poor.

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

Up to this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless;

as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

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

as it is written: “He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor, His righteousness endures forever.”

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

Concerning him we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, since you have become poor listeners.

For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and is dressed in bright clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes also comes in,

and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the bright clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,”

Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters: did God not choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?

Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have no need of anything,” and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked,

And he causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,