“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

It could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor!”

For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!

And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, worth less than a penny.

But when you host an elaborate meal, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores,

“Why wasn’t this oil sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?”

For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”

They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!” So they spoke angrily to her.

He said, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.

For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. But you will not always have me!

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God belongs to you.

“Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.