Bible Dictionary: The Poor: should Commit Themselves to God

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Psalm 10:14
You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
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The Poor Man's Friend
... the Lord should first come; but they are not afraid to die. This is the point, above
all others, in which the spiritually poor commit themselves unto God. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 53 1907/the poor mans friend.htm

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
... There is a generation of men who commit idolatry with ... pride; but the publican, who
was poor in spirit ... his own righteousness, the top whereof should have reached ...
/.../watson/the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/4 blessed are the poor.htm

Work
... We should take the work just as God gives it, and commit it all ... we are often apt
to judge one another, and say one should be doing ... "Poor, blind, spiritual man! ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/three friends of god/chapter xx work.htm

Thou Shalt not Commit Adultery.
... Thou shalt not commit adultery. ... Therefore I have always taught that this estate should
not be ... yea, even the command is given, to all poor ensnared consciences ...
/.../luther/the large catechism/thou shalt not commit adultery.htm

The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New
... Yes, it is good that we should all remember ... to fancy, as thousands do, rich and poor,
that because ... neighbours; that every wrong action they commit, every wrong ...
/.../kingsley/the gospel of the pentateuch/sermon xi the god of.htm

How Love Makes Use of Natural, Servile and Mercenary Fear.
... obtain the rewards he promises,"would commit blasphemy, preferring ... father might be
old, powerless, and poor, he would ... before he died, that we should say thus ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xviii how love makes.htm

That Our Lawful Occupations do not Hinder us from Practicising ...
... the Israelites had good reason to excuse themselves to the ... you not also mark that
those poor people were ... without true necessity, lest he should commit the sin ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter iv that our lawful.htm

It Clearly Appears that There was but one Author of Both the Old ...
... to him who asked Him what he should do that ... Which?" again the Lord replies: "Do not
commit adultery, do ... all that thou hast, and distribute to the poor; and come ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xii it clearly appears that.htm

The Lord Our Dwelling Place
... are resumed""but then I cannot forget that I am a poor good-for ... away and worry over
it, as we worry over the things we commit to God, and should express to ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/smith/the god of all comfort/chapter 8 the lord our.htm

1 Cor. Iii. 18, 19
... to their own faulty eyesight, they will commit many more ... due, and to whom it is fitting
we should minister ... He can make thee poor, though unwilling, but He will ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily x 1 cor iii.htm