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In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good and helping the poor.
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Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked. The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.
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and said, ‘Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor.
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“After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings.
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For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord’s people in Jerusalem.
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If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
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As it is written: “They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness endures forever.”
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All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.
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Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.
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If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,”
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Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?
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But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?
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You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
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It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,