If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.

If you cannot afford a sheep or a goat, you shall bring to the LORD as the payment for your sin two doves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

If the woman cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two doves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering, and the priest shall perform the ritual to take away her impurity, and she will be ritually clean.

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.

He does not take the side of rulers nor favor the rich over the poor, for he created everyone.

If you make fun of poor people, you insult the God who made them. You will be punished if you take pleasure in someone's misfortune.

The rich and the poor have this in common: the LORD made them both.

Jesus looked at his disciples and said, "Happy are you poor; the Kingdom of God is yours!

and he also saw a very poor widow dropping in two little copper coins.

For the others offered their gifts from what they had to spare of their riches; but she, poor as she is, gave all she had to live on."

You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; rich as he was, he made himself poor for your sake, in order to make you rich by means of his poverty.

If you are eager to give, God will accept your gift on the basis of what you have to give, not on what you don't have.

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.

But you dishonor the poor! Who are the ones who oppress you and drag you before the judges? The rich!