Verse 2

The riche and poore meete together: the Lorde is the maker of them all.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 31:15 : 15 He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapen a like in our mothers bodies?
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He that doth a poore man wrong, blasphemeth his maker: but who so honoureth him, hath pitie on the poore.
  • Prov 29:13 : 13 The poore and the lender meete together, and the Lorde lyghteneth both their eyes.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 God hath no respect vnto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the riche more then the poore: for they be al the worke of his handes.
  • 1 Cor 12:21 : 21 And the eye can not say vnto ye hande, I haue no neede of thee: Nor, the head agayne to the feete, I haue no neede of you.
  • Jas 2:2-5 : 2 For yf there come into your companie a man wearing a golde ryng, clothed in goodly apparell, and there come in also a poore man in vile rayment: 3 And ye haue a respect to hym that weareth the gay clothyng, and say vnto hym, sitte thou here in a good place: & say vnto the poore, stande thou there, or sitte here vnder my footestoole: 4 Are ye not partiall in your selues, and are made iudges of euyll thoughtes? 5 Hearken my deare beloued brethren. Hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde, such as are riche in fayth, and heyres of the kyngdome, which he promised to them that loue hym?
  • 1 Sam 2:7 : 7 The Lord maketh poore, and maketh ryche, bringeth lowe, and heaueth vp on hye.
  • Ps 49:1-2 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a psalme of the children of Corach. Heare this all ye people: geue eare all ye that dwell in the worlde. 2 As well lowe as high: riche and poore, one with another.
  • Luke 16:19-20 : 19 Ther was a certaine riche man, whiche was clothed in purple & fine whyte, and fared very deliciously euery day. 20 And there was a certayne begger, named Lazarus, which was layde at his gate full of sores: