Luke 14:12

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.

After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.”

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

When Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” They prepared to attack the city.

They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those who needed healing.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.