9 Bible results for “poor” from New Living Translation, King James Version, New International Version, New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition, and The Message. Results 1-9. 
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  • New Living Translation
    and impartial in your judgments. Hear the cases of those who are poor as well as those who are rich. Don’t be afraid of anyone’s anger, for the decision you make is God’s decision. Bring me any cases that are too difficult for you, and I will handle them.’
  • New Living Translation
    “There should be no poor among you, for the Lord your God will greatly bless you in the land he is giving you as a special possession.
  • King James Version
    Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
  • New International Version
    However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you,
  • The Message
    There must be no poor people among you because God is going to bless you lavishly in this land that God, your God, is giving you as an inheritance, your very own land. But only if you listen obediently to the Voice of God, your God, diligently observing every commandment that I command you today. Oh yes—God, your God, will bless you just as he promised. You will lend to many nations but won’t borrow from any; you’ll rule over many nations but none will rule over you.
  • New Living Translation
    “But if there are any poor Israelites in your towns when you arrive in the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tightfisted toward them.
  • King James Version
    If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
  • New International Version
    If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.
  • King James Version
    Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
  • New Living Translation
    Give generously to the poor, not grudgingly, for the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
  • The Message
    Give freely and spontaneously. Don’t have a stingy heart. The way you handle matters like this triggers God, your God’s, blessing in everything you do, all your work and ventures. There are always going to be poor and needy people among you. So I command you: Always be generous, open purse and hands, give to your neighbors in trouble, your poor and hurting neighbors.
  • New Living Translation
    There will always be some in the land who are poor. That is why I am commanding you to share freely with the poor and with other Israelites in need.
  • King James Version
    For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
  • New International Version
    There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.
  • New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
    Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you, ‘Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.’
  • New Living Translation
    “Never take advantage of poor and destitute laborers, whether they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns.
  • King James Version
    Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
  • New International Version
    Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
  • New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
    “You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of your towns.
  • New Living Translation
    You must pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and are counting on it. If you don’t, they might cry out to the Lord against you, and it would be counted against you as sin.
  • King James Version
    At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
  • New International Version
    Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  • New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
    You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.
New Living Translation (NLT)

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New International Version (NIV)

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New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)

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The Message (MSG)

Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson

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)