Proverbs 21:13

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Who so stoppeth his eares at the crying of the poore, he shall crye hym selfe and not be hearde.

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  • Jas 2:13-16 : 13 For he shall haue iudgement without mercie, that sheweth no mercie: And mercie reioyceth agaynst iudgement. 14 What profiteth it my brethren, though a man say he hath fayth, and hath not deedes? Can fayth saue hym? 15 If a brother or a sister be naked, and destitute of dayly foode, 16 And one of you say vnto them, depart in peace, be you warmed and fylled: notwithstandyng, ye geue them not those thinges which are nedefull to, the body, what shall it profite?
  • Acts 7:57 : 57 Then they gaue a shoute with a loude voyce, and stopped their eares, and ran vpon hym all at once,
  • Deut 15:7-9 : 7 If one of thy brethren among you be poore within any of thy gates in thy lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee: thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut to thine hande from thy poore brother: 8 But thou shalt open thine hande vnto hym, and lende hym sufficient for his neede which he hath. 9 Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thine heart, that thou wouldest say, the seuenth yere, the yere of freedome is at hande: and therfore it greeueth thee to loke on thy poore brother, and geuest hym naught, and he then crye vnto the Lorde agaynst thee, and it be sinne vnto thee: 10 Thou shalt geue hym, and let it not greeue thine heart to geue vnto hym: Because that for this thyng the Lorde thy God shall blesse thee in all thy workes, and in all that thou puttest thine hande to. 11 The lande shall neuer be without poore: and therfore I comaunde thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hande vnto thy brother that is needy & poore in thy lande.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 And there arose a great complaynt of the people and their wyues against their brethre the Iewes. 2 For there were some that saide, Our sonnes and daughters and we are very many: therefore wyll we take corne for them, that we may eate and liue. 3 Some also there were that saide: Let vs set our landes, vineyardes, and houses to pledge, and take vp corne in the dearth. 4 But some there were that saide: We haue borowed money for the kinges tribute, and that vpon our landes & vineyardes. 5 And now our fleshe is as the fleshe of our brethren, and our children as their children: and loe we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters as seruauntes, and some of our daughters are subdued vnto bondage alredie, and no strength is there in our handes to redeeme them, and other men haue our landes and vineyardes.
  • Neh 5:13 : 13 And I shooke my lappe and saide: God shake out euery man after the same maner from his house & laboure that maintaineth not this worde, euen thus be he shaken out, and voyde. And all the congregation saide, Amen, and praysed the Lorde: And the people did according to this promise.
  • Ps 18:41 : 41 They cryed, but there was none to saue them: they cryed vnto God, but he dyd not heare them.
  • Ps 58:4 : 4 They haue poyson within them lyke to the poyson of a serpent: they be lyke the deafe adder that stoppeth her eares,
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then shall they call vpon me, but I wyll not aunswere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:
  • Prov 28:27 : 27 He that geueth vnto the poore shall not lacke: but he that hydeth his eyes from them, shall haue many a curse.
  • Isa 1:15-17 : 15 When you holde out your handes, I wyll turne myne eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, yet I wyll heare nothyng at all, seyng your handes are full of blood. 16 Washe you, make you cleane, put away your euyll thoughtes out of my syght: ceasse from doyng of euyll, 17 Learne to do well, applie your selues to equitie, deliuer the oppressed, helpe the fatherlesse to his ryght, let the widdowes complaynt come before you:
  • Isa 58:6-9 : 6 Doth not this fasting rather please me, That thou lose the wicked bands, that thou take of the ouer heauie burthens, that thou let the oppressed go free, and breake all maner of yoke? 7 To deale thy bread to the hungrie, and to bring the poore wandering home into thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou couer hym, and hide not thy selfe from thy neighbour, and despise not thyne owne fleshe? 8 Then shall thy light breake foorth as the morning, and thy health florishe right shortly: righteousnesse shall go before thee, and the glory of the Lorde shall embrace thee. 9 Then if thou callest, the Lorde shall aunswere thee, if thou cryest, he shall say, here I am: yea if thou layest away from thee thy burthens, and holdest thy fingers, and ceassest from vngracious talking:
  • Jer 34:16-17 : 16 But yet ye turned your selues againe, and blasphemed my name, in this, that euery man hath required his seruaunt and handemayde agayne whom ye had let go quite and free, and compelled them to serue you agayne, and to be bondmen and bondwomen. 17 And therfore thus saith the Lord: Ye haue not obayed me, euery man to proclaime freedome vnto his brother and neighbour: wherefore I wyll call you vnto freedome, saith the Lorde, euen vnto the sworde, to the pestilence, and to hunger, and will make you to be plagued in all kyngdomes of the earth.
  • Zech 7:9-9 : 9 Thus saith the Lord of hoastes: Execute true iudgement, shew mercie & louing kindnes euery man to his brother. 10 Do the wydow, the fatherlesse, the straungers and poore no wrong, and let no man imagine euil against his brother in his heart. 11 Neuerthelesse, they would not take heede, but turned their backes, & stopped their eares that they should not heare: 12 Yea, they made their heartes as an Adamant stone, lest they should heare the law and wordes which the Lorde of hoastes sent in his holy spirite by the prophetes aforetime: Wherfore the lord of hoastes was very wroth at them. 13 And thus is it come to passe, that like as he cryed, and they would not heare: euen so they cryed, & I would not heare saith the Lord God of hoastes:
  • Matt 6:14 : 14 For, yf ye forgeue men theyr trespasses, your heauenly father shall also forgeue you.
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For with what iudgement ye iudge, ye shalbe iudged: And with what measure ye meate, it shalbe measured to you agayne.
  • Matt 18:30-35 : 30 And he woulde not: but went, and cast hym into prison, tyll he shoulde pay the debt. 31 So, when his felowes sawe what was done, they were very sory: & came, and tolde vnto their Lorde all that was done. 32 Then his Lorde called hym, and sayd vnto him: O thou vngracious seruaunt, I forgaue thee all that debt, when thou desiredst me: 33 Shouldest not thou also, haue had compassion on thy felowe, euen as I had pitie on thee? 34 And his Lorde was wroth, and delyuered hym to the tormentours, tyll he shoulde pay all that was due vnto him. 35 So lykewyse, shall my heauenly father do also vnto you, yf ye from your heartes, forgeue not, euery one his brother, their trespasses.
  • Matt 25:41-46 : 41 Then shall he saye vnto them on the left hande: Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire, which is prepared for the deuyll and his angels. 42 For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me no drynke. 43 I was harbourlesse, and ye toke me not in: I was naked, and ye clothed me not: I was sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also aunswere hym, saying: Lorde, when sawe we thee an hungred, or a thirste, or harbourlesse, or naked, or sicke, or in pryson, and did not minister vnto thee? 45 Then shall he aunswere them, saying: Ueryly I say vnto you, in as much as ye dyd it not to one of the least of these, ye dyd it not to me. 46 And these shall go into euerlastyng payne: the ryghteous into lyfe eternall.
  • Luke 13:25 : 25 When the good man of the house is risen vp, and hath shut to the doore, and ye begyn to stande without, & to knocke at the doore, saying, Lorde, Lorde, open vnto vs: and he shall aunswere, and say vnto you, I knowe you not whence ye are.

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    28 Insomuch that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in trouble.

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    27 He that geueth vnto the poore shall not lacke: but he that hydeth his eyes from them, shall haue many a curse.

  • Prov 22:16-17
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    16 Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne riches and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe.

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    31 He that doth a poore man wrong, blasphemeth his maker: but who so honoureth him, hath pitie on the poore.

  • Prov 29:7
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    7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poore: but the vngodly regardeth no vnderstandyng.

  • Prov 28:8-9
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    8 He that by vsurie and vniust gaynes gathereth riches: he shall lay them in store for a man that will pitie the poore.

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  • Job 5:16
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    16 He is the hope of the poore, & the mouth of the wicked shalbe stopped.

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    3 One poore man oppressing another by violence, is like a raging rayne that destroyeth the fruite.

  • Prov 17:5
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    5 Who so scorneth the poore, blasphemeth his maker: and he that is glad at another mans hurt, shall not be vnpunished.

  • Job 36:15
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    15 The poore shall he deliuer out of his affliction, and rounde them in the eare when they be in trouble.

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    8 Be thou an aduocate for the dumbe, to speake in the cause of all such as be succourlesse in this transitorie worlde.

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    17 He that hath pitie vpon the poore, lendeth vnto the Lord: and looke what he layeth out, it shalbe payde hym agayne.

  • Prov 18:23
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    23 The poore prayeth meekely: but the riche geueth a rough aunswere.

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    1 To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid. Blessed is he that considereth ye poore: God wyll delyuer hym in the tyme of trouble.

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    4 Heare this, O ye that swallow vp the poore, that ye may make the needy of the lande to fayle,

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    20 The poore is hated euen of his owne neyghbours: but the riche hath many frendes.

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    14 A priuie rewarde pacifieth displeasure: and a gyft in the bosome stylleth furiousnesse.

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    11 The riche man thinketh hym selfe to be wise: but the poore that hath vnderstandyng can perceaue hym well inough.

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    12 If any such complaine, no man geueth aunswere, and that because of the wickednesse of proude tirauntes.

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    15 The eyes of God are ouer the righteous: and his eares are open vnto their prayers.

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    20 Thou hast seene much, and kepest nothing: the eares are open, and no man heareth.

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    23 If ye shall euyll entreate them, and they crye out vnto me, I wyll surelye heare theyr crye.

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    9 Will God heare his crye, when trouble commeth vpon him?

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    12 The righteous man wysely considereth the house of the wicked, and for their wickednesse God ouerthroweth the vngodly.

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