Luke 6:20
And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: 'Happy the poor — because yours is the reign of God.
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1 Samuel 2:8He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause [them] to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah [are] the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.
Psalms 113:7He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.
Proverbs 19:1Better [is] the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse [in] his lips, who [is] a fool.
Isaiah 57:15For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy [is] His name: 'In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'
Zephaniah 3:12And I have left in thy midst a people humble and poor, And they have trusted in the name of Jehovah.
Matthew 5:2and having opened his mouth, he was teaching them, saying:
Matthew Henry on Luke 6:13-20
The Twelve Apostles Chosen. 12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. 13 And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; 14 Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, 15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphæus, and Simon called Zelotes, 16 And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the… Read the whole commentary →