The rich shall not pay more, and the poor shall not pay less, than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the Lord to make atonement for yourselves.

Then he said, “May you be blessed of the Lord, my daughter. You have shown your last kindness to be better than the first, by not going after young men, whether poor or rich.

The Lord makes poor and rich; He humbles, He also exalts.

Who shows no partiality to the prominent, Nor regards the rich as above the poor, Since they are all the work of His hands?

Both low and high, Rich and poor together.

Poor is one who works with a lazy hand, But the hand of the diligent makes rich.

The rich person’s wealth is his fortress, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

There is one who pretends to be rich but has nothing; Another pretends to be poor, but has great wealth.

The poor is hated even by his neighbor, But those who love the rich are many.

A poor person utters pleadings, But a rich person answers defiantly.

One who loves pleasure will become a poor person; One who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

The rich and the poor have a common bond, The Lord is the Maker of them all.

The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower becomes the lender’s slave.

One who oppresses the poor to make more for himself, Or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity, Than a person who is crooked, though he is rich.

The rich person is wise in his own eyes, But the poor who has understanding sees through him.

Now it happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s arms; and the rich man also died and was buried.

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.

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,