Psalms 41:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.”
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“Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Blessed is he that considereth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 41:1 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 15:7If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
- Ruth 2:19Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.
- Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
- Job 31:16If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
- Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
- Psalms 37:19In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.
- Psalms 37:26They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
- Psalms 37:39The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their stronghold in time of trouble.
- Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
- Psalms 112:9He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.
- Proverbs 14:21He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who shows kindness to the poor.
- Proverbs 16:14The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
- Proverbs 19:17Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
- Ecclesiastes 11:1Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
- Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
- Isaiah 58:7Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
- Isaiah 58:10and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
- Jeremiah 39:17But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you will not be delivered into the hands of the men whom you fear.
- Matthew 25:34Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
- Mark 14:7The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.
- Luke 14:13But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,
- Acts 20:35In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
- 2 Corinthians 9:8And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
- Galatians 2:10They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
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