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Want to know what the Bible says about Poor? Here are 264 Bible verses about Poor from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Job 34:19 NIV
who shows no partiality to princes
    and does not favor the rich over the poor,
    for they are all the work of his hands?
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Psalm 109:16 NIV
For he never thought of doing a kindness,
    but hounded to death the poor
    and the needy and the brokenhearted.
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Proverbs 10:15 NIV
The wealth of the rich is their fortified city,
    but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
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Proverbs 14:20-21 NIV
20 The poor are shunned even by their neighbors,
    but the rich have many friends.
21 It is a sin to despise one’s neighbor,
    but blessed is the one who is kind to the needy.
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Proverbs 18:23 NIV
The poor plead for mercy,
    but the rich answer harshly.
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Proverbs 19:1 NIV
Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than a fool whose lips are perverse.
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Proverbs 23:21 NIV
for drunkards and gluttons become poor,
    and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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Proverbs 29:14 NIV
If a king judges the poor with fairness,
    his throne will be established forever.
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Ecclesiastes 4:6 NIV
Better one handful with tranquillity
    than two handfuls with toil
    and chasing after the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 6:8 NIV
What advantage have the wise over fools?
What do the poor gain
    by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
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