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1. According to the very constitution of human nature, great social distinctions do and must exist. While we acquiesce in this fact as inevitable, it is important that we take a right view of it.

2. The rich and poor, with many outward differences, meet together in the possession of a common nature, which is greater than all the circumstances of life.

3. The rich and poor meet together in a large intermediate class. The blending of classes is not less remarkable than their separation.

4. The rich and poor meet together in the common enjoyment of all the greater blessings of life. The most valuable blessings of life are those which are scattered broadcast over the world, and which come to all alike, as does the bright shining of the sun.

5. The rich and poor meet together in all the more important and deeper experiences of life. The great events, which stir the deepest feelings of man's heart — birth, marriage, death — occur in every household.

6. The rich and poor meet together in that they are all alike, and without exception, sinners, involved in one common ruin, exposed to one common doom. This is one of the most unpalatable truths of the Bible.

7. The rich and poor meet together in this — they have presented unto them a common salvation. There is only one gospel for rich and poor. Social and national distinctions find no place in the gospel of Christ. If men are to be saved at all they can only be saved in one way, by the exercise of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the one Saviour.

(T. M. Morris.)

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KJV: The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

WEB: The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.