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Deuteronomy 15:11 (KJV)

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.

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Exodus 23:11 - But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.
Deuteronomy 15:8 - But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth.
Proverbs 19:17 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Proverbs 22:2 - The rich and poor meet together: the LORD [is] the maker of them all.
Matthew 5:42 - ‹Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.›
Matthew 26:11 - ‹For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.›
Mark 14:7 - ‹For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.›
Luke 12:33 - ‹Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.›
John 12:8 - ‹For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.›
Acts 2:45 - And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all [men], as every man had need.
Acts 4:32 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any [of them] that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Acts 11:28 - And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
2 Corinthians 8:2 - How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
1 John 3:16 - Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.

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