Bible Cross References
poor
Zechariah 11:7
Those who bought and sold the sheep hired me, and I became the shepherd of the sheep that were going to be butchered. I took two sticks: one I called "Favor" and the other "Unity." And I took care of the flock.
Psalm 69:33
The LORD listens to those in need and does not forget his people in prison.
Psalm 72:12-14
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He rescues the poor who call to him, and those who are needy and neglected.
13
He has pity on the weak and poor; he saves the lives of those in need.
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He rescues them from oppression and violence; their lives are precious to him.
Isaiah 14:32
How shall we answer the messengers that come to us from Philistia? We will tell them that the LORD has established Zion and that his suffering people will find safety there.
Zephaniah 3:12
I will leave there a humble and lowly people, who will come to me for help.
Luke 7:22
He answered John's messengers, "Go back and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind can see, the lame can walk, those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean, the deaf can hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor.
Luke 19:48
but they could not find a way to do it, because all the people kept listening to him, not wanting to miss a single word.
James 2:5
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.
James 2:6
But you dishonor the poor! Who are the ones who oppress you and drag you before the judges? The rich!
that waited
Isaiah 8:17
The LORD has hidden himself from his people, but I trust him and place my hope in him.
Isaiah 26:8
We follow your will and put our hope in you; you are all that we desire.
Isaiah 26:9
At night I long for you with all my heart; when you judge the earth and its people, they will all learn what justice is.
Isaiah 40:31
But those who trust in the LORD for help will find their strength renewed. They will rise on wings like eagles; they will run and not get weary; they will walk and not grow weak.
Lamentations 3:25
The LORD is good to everyone who trusts in him,
Lamentations 3:26
So it is best for us to wait in patience---to wait for him to save us---
Micah 7:7
But I will watch for the LORD; I will wait confidently for God, who will save me. My God will hear me.
Luke 2:25
At that time there was a man named Simeon living in Jerusalem. He was a good, God-fearing man and was waiting for Israel to be saved. The Holy Spirit was with him
Luke 2:38
That very same hour she arrived and gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were waiting for God to set Jerusalem free.
Luke 23:51
Acts 1:21
"So then, someone must join us as a witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. He must be one of the men who were in our group during the whole time that the Lord Jesus traveled about with us, beginning from the time John preached his message of baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us to heaven."
Acts 1:22
knew
Zechariah 11:6
(The LORD said, "I will no longer pity anyone on earth. I myself will put all the people in the power of their rulers. These rulers will devastate the earth, and I will not save it from their power.")
Leviticus 26:38-46
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You will die in exile, swallowed up by the land of your enemies.
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The few of you who survive in the land of your enemies will waste away because of your own sin and the sin of your ancestors.
40
"But your descendants will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors, who resisted me and rebelled against me,
41
and caused me to turn against them and send them into exile in the land of their enemies. At last, when your descendants are humbled and they have paid the penalty for their sin and rebellion,
42
I will remember my covenant with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will renew my promise to give my people the land.
43
First, however, the land must be rid of its people, so that it can enjoy its complete rest, and they must pay the full penalty for having rejected my laws and my commands.
44
But even then, when they are still in the land of their enemies, I will not completely abandon them or destroy them. That would put an end to my covenant with them, and I am the LORD their God.
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I will renew the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I showed all the nations my power by bringing my people out of Egypt, in order that I, the LORD, might be their God."
46
All these are the laws and commands that the LORD gave to Moses on Mount Sinai for the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:49-68
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The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.
50
They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.
51
They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.
52
They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
53
"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
54
Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
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Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
58
"If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the LORD your God,
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he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.
60
He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.
61
He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.
62
Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
63
Just as the LORD took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.
64
"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.
65
You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the LORD will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.
66
Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.
67
Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.
68
The LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though he said that you would never have to go there again. There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."
Deuteronomy 31:21
and many terrible disasters will come on them. But this song will still be sung, and it will stand as evidence against them. Even now, before I take them into the land that I promised to give them, I know what they are thinking."
Deuteronomy 31:29
I know that after my death the people will become wicked and reject what I have taught them. And in time to come they will meet with disaster, because they will have made the LORD angry by doing what he has forbidden."
Deuteronomy 32:21-42
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With their idols they have made me angry, jealous with their so-called gods, gods that are really not gods. So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry; I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.
22
My anger will flame up like fire and burn everything on earth. It will reach to the world below and consume the roots of the mountains.
23
" 'I will bring on them endless disasters and use all my arrows against them.
24
They will die from hunger and fever; they will die from terrible diseases. I will send wild animals to attack them, and poisonous snakes to bite them.
25
War will bring death in the streets; terrors will strike in the homes. Young men and young women will die; neither babies nor old people will be spared.
26
I would have destroyed them completely, so that no one would remember them.
27
But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.'
28
"Israel is a nation without sense; they have no wisdom at all.
29
They fail to see why they were defeated; they cannot understand what happened.
30
Why were a thousand defeated by one, and ten thousand by only two? The LORD, their God, had abandoned them; their mighty God had given them up.
31
Their enemies know that their own gods are weak, not mighty like Israel's God.
32
Their enemies, corrupt as Sodom and Gomorrah, are like vines that bear bitter and poisonous grapes,
33
like wine made from the venom of snakes.
34
"The LORD remembers what their enemies have done; he waits for the right time to punish them.
35
The LORD will take revenge and punish them; the time will come when they will fall; the day of their doom is near.
36
The LORD will rescue his people when he sees that their strength is gone. He will have mercy on those who serve him, when he sees how helpless they are.
37
Then the LORD will ask his people, 'Where are those mighty gods you trusted?
38
You fed them the fat of your sacrifices and offered them wine to drink. Let them come and help you now; let them run to your rescue.
39
" 'I, and I alone, am God; no other god is real. I kill and I give life, I wound and I heal, and no one can oppose what I do.
40
As surely as I am the living God, I raise my hand and I vow
41
that I will sharpen my flashing sword and see that justice is done. I will take revenge on my enemies and punish those who hate me.
42
My arrows will drip with their blood, and my sword will kill all who oppose me. I will spare no one who fights against me; even the wounded and prisoners will die.'
Luke 24:49-53
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And I myself will send upon you what my Father has promised. But you must wait in the city until the power from above comes down upon you."
50
Then he led them out of the city as far as Bethany, where he raised his hands and blessed them.
51
As he was blessing them, he departed from them and was taken up into heaven.
52
They worshiped him and went back into Jerusalem, filled with great joy,
53
and spent all their time in the Temple giving thanks to God.
Romans 11:7-12
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What then? The people of Israel did not find what they were looking for. It was only the small group that God chose who found it; the rest grew deaf to God's call.
8
As the scripture says, "God made their minds and hearts dull; to this very day they cannot see or hear."
9
And David says, "May they be caught and trapped at their feasts; may they fall, may they be punished!
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May their eyes be blinded so that they cannot see; and make them bend under their troubles at all times."
11
I ask, then: When the Jews stumbled, did they fall to their ruin? By no means! Because they sinned, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make the Jews jealous of them.
12
The sin of the Jews brought rich blessings to the world, and their spiritual poverty brought rich blessings to the Gentiles. Then, how much greater the blessings will be when the complete number of Jews is included!
James 5:1-6
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And now, you rich people, listen to me! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you!
2
Your riches have rotted away, and your clothes have been eaten by moths.
3
Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and this rust will be a witness against you and will eat up your flesh like fire. You have piled up riches in these last days.
4
You have not paid any wages to those who work in your fields. Listen to their complaints! The cries of those who gather in your crops have reached the ears of God, the Lord Almighty.
5
Your life here on earth has been full of luxury and pleasure. You have made yourselves fat for the day of slaughter.
6
You have condemned and murdered innocent people, and they do not resist you.