Proverbs 22:2

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’ ”

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

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

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

“ ‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

“On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, one ewe lamb a year old without defect, three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

For there is no partiality with God.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing.

“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

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.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them.

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

The eye can’t tell the hand, “I have no need for you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need for you.”

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

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

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

“If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

Then David said, “Do not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against Yahweh.

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

“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.”

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

both low and high, rich and poor together.

He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?”

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.