Bible Cross References
when
Luke 1:53
He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away with empty hands.
Proverbs 14:20
No one likes the poor, not even their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
Proverbs 22:16
If you make gifts to rich people or oppress the poor to get rich, you will become poor yourself.
James 2:1-6
1
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.
2
Suppose a rich man wearing a gold ring and fine clothes comes to your meeting, and a poor man in ragged clothes also comes.
3
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,"
4
then you are guilty of creating distinctions among yourselves and of making judgments based on evil motives.
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.
6
But you dishonor the poor! Who are the ones who oppress you and drag you before the judges? The rich!
and a
Luke 6:32-36
32
"If you love only the people who love you, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners love those who love them!
33
And if you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners do that!
34
And if you lend only to those from whom you hope to get it back, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount!
35
No! Love your enemies and do good to them; lend and expect nothing back. You will then have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God. For he is good to the ungrateful and the wicked.
36
Be merciful just as your Father is merciful.
Zechariah 7:5-7
5
He said, "Tell the people of the land and the priests that when they fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during these seventy years, it was not in honor of me.
6
And when they ate and drank, it was for their own satisfaction."
7
This is what the LORD said through the earlier prophets at the time when Jerusalem was prosperous and filled with people and when there were many people living not only in the towns around the city but also in the southern region and in the western foothills.
Matthew 5:46
Why should God reward you if you love only the people who love you? Even the tax collectors do that!
Matthew 6:1-4
1
"Make certain you do not perform your religious duties in public so that people will see what you do. If you do these things publicly, you will not have any reward from your Father in heaven.
2
"So when you give something to a needy person, do not make a big show of it, as the hypocrites do in the houses of worship and on the streets. They do it so that people will praise them. I assure you, they have already been paid in full.
3
But when you help a needy person, do it in such a way that even your closest friend will not know about it.
4
Then it will be a private matter. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you.
Matthew 6:16-18
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"And when you fast, do not put on a sad face as the hypocrites do. They neglect their appearance so that everyone will see that they are fasting. I assure you, they have already been paid in full.
17
When you go without food, wash your face and comb your hair,
18
so that others cannot know that you are fasting---only your Father, who is unseen, will know. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you.