Bible Dictionary: Being Poor

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Greek

4442. pur -- fire
... of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: pur Phonetic Spelling: (poor) Short Definition ...
Indeed the brings the privilege of being which happens by experiencing . ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Proverbs 28:3
A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.
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Proverbs 22:22
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
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Mark 14:7
For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good: but me you have not always.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regards; and there be higher than they.
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Matthew 5:3
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Library

A Poor but Happy Boy.
... 10. Being informed how willing and ready the Lord Jesus Christ was to accept of
poor sinners, and being counselled to venture himself upon Christ for mercy and ...
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Being Generous and Loving
... THE SAYINGS OF THE WISE BEING GENEROUS AND LOVING. ... He who oppresses the poor reviles
his Maker, But he who has pity on the needy honors him. ...
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The Poor Debtor.
... But the poor debtor has no money upon which to make an interest ... His debt, instead
of being ten thousand, will have increased to over twelve thousand dollars by ...
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The Lone Man who Went Before
... The blessedness is not in being poor, but in a certain spirit that may control
a man. We are all poor in everything except spirit. ...
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The Poor Man's Friend
... is called The Lord their righteousness; and when they are clothed in his righteousness,
they are looked upon by God as being "without spot ... Are they not poor? ...
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Consecration to God --Illustrated by Abraham's Circumcision
... If a man believes, being poor, that God is sufficient portion for him, he will
not grow envious of the rich or discontented with his condition. ...
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Who is the Rich Man that Shall be Saved?
... and especially, is that which is to live, and if virtue springing up around it saves,
and vice kills; then it is clearly manifest that by being poor in those ...
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Buying the Truth
... up. Run the risk of being poor. Do not believe, as all the world says,
that you must live. There is no absolute necessity for it. ...
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The Children of the Poor.
... nevertheless, it is reasoning, and shows that the mind of the poor boy is not ... It
is no more than justice to say"all the conditions being considered"that as ...
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Chapter I Beginning and Early Days of the Orphan Work.
... Truly, it is worth being poor and greatly tried in faith, for the sake of having
day by day such precious proofs of the loving interest which our kind Father ...
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