Psalms 49:2

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Pay attention, all you people, both rich and poor!

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
  • Jas 2:1-7 : 1 Prejudice and the Law of Love My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. 2 For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes, 3 do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say,“You sit here in a good place,” and to the poor person,“You stand over there,” or“Sit on the floor”? 4 If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives? 5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts? 7 Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to?
  • Rev 6:15-17 : 15 Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They said to the mountains and to the rocks,“Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
  • 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 The LORD impoverishes and makes wealthy; he humbles and he exalts. 8 He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes– he bestows on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the LORD– he placed the world on them.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?
  • Prov 22:2 : 2 The rich and the poor are met together; the LORD is the Creator of them both.
  • Jer 5:4-5 : 4 I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them. 5 I will go to the leaders and speak with them. Surely they know what the LORD demands. Surely they know what their God requires of them.” Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him.
  • Jas 1:9-9 : 9 Now the believer of humble means should take pride in his high position. 10 But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow. 11 For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

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    13The poor person and the oppressor have this in common: the LORD gives light to the eyes of them both.

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    7The LORD impoverishes and makes wealthy; he humbles and he exalts.

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    9Now the believer of humble means should take pride in his high position.

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    19who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?

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    3I will declare a wise saying; I will share my profound thoughts.

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    14Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.”

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    19Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

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    16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.

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    19The downtrodden will again rejoice in the LORD; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel.

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    11A rich person is wise in his own opinion, but a discerning poor person can evaluate him properly.

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    9Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

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    41Yet he protected the needy from oppression, and cared for his families like a flock of sheep.

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    2For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,

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    5Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

    6But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

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