Bible Cross References
Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
Psalm 62:9
Human beings are all like a puff of breath; great and small alike are worthless. Put them on the scales, and they weigh nothing; they are lighter than a mere breath.
1 Samuel 2:7
He makes some people poor and others rich; he humbles some and makes others great.
1 Samuel 2:8
He lifts the poor from the dust and raises the needy from their misery. He makes them companions of princes and puts them in places of honor. The foundations of the earth belong to the LORD; on them he has built the world.
Job 34:19
He does not take the side of rulers nor favor the rich over the poor, for he created everyone.
Proverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor have this in common: the LORD made them both.
Jeremiah 5:4
Then I thought, "These are only the poor and ignorant. They behave foolishly; they don't know what their God requires, what the LORD wants them to do.
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the people in power and talk with them. Surely they know what their God requires, what the LORD wants them to do." But all of them have rejected the LORD's authority and refuse to obey him.
James 1:9-11
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Those Christians who are poor must be glad when God lifts them up,
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and the rich Christians must be glad when God brings them down. For the rich will pass away like the flower of a wild plant.
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The sun rises with its blazing heat and burns the plant; its flower falls off, and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way the rich will be destroyed while they go about their business.
James 2:1-7
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My friends, as believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, you must never treat people in different ways according to their outward appearance.
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Suppose a rich man wearing a gold ring and fine clothes comes to your meeting, and a poor man in ragged clothes also comes.
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If you show more respect to the well-dressed man and say to him, "Have this best seat here," but say to the poor man, "Stand over there, or sit here on the floor by my feet,"
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then you are guilty of creating distinctions among yourselves and of making judgments based on evil motives.
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Listen, my dear friends! God chose the poor people of this world to be rich in faith and to possess the kingdom which he promised to those who love him.
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But you dishonor the poor! Who are the ones who oppress you and drag you before the judges? The rich!
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They are the ones who speak evil of that good name which has been given to you.
Revelation 6:15-17
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Then the kings of the earth, the rulers and the military chiefs, the rich and the powerful, and all other people, slave and free, hid themselves in caves and under rocks on the mountains.
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They called out to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the eyes of the one who sits on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb!
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The terrible day of their anger is here, and who can stand up against it?"