1. “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.”

2. “The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.”

3. “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 by his poverty might become rich.”

4. “Love not to sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread. Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.”