Re: Am I crazy for staying in Fairfax county for my retirement?
Date: July 08, 2018 09:56PM
Sorry about the loss of your wife.
Just wanted to thank you for all the money you have
donated to the homeless over the years.
Instead of being a selfish self centered suburban asshole,
you actually practice what you preach
Proverbs 19:17 ESV /
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’
Luke 14:13 ESV /
But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
Proverbs 14:31 E
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 22:9 ESV /
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Mark 10:21 ESV / 214 helpful votes
And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 201 helpful votes
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Luke 6:20-21 ESV / 199 helpful votes
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
Luke 4:18 ESV / 186 helpful votes
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Matthew 19:21 ESV / 167 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 164 helpful votes
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 156 helpful votes
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
Galatians 2:10 ESV / 154 helpful votes
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Luke 6:20-26 ESV / 150 helpful votes
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. “But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. ...
Matthew 26:11 ESV / 145 helpful votes
For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 143 helpful votes
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 143 helpful votes
Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
1 John 3:17 ESV / 141 helpful votes
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
Matthew 5:3 ESV / 136 helpful votes
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Psalm 140:12 ESV / 134 helpful votes
I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 131 helpful votes
For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
Proverbs 17:5 ESV / 131 helpful votes
Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 22:22-23 ESV / 129 helpful votes
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 127 helpful votes
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 124 helpful votes
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Matthew 11:5 ESV / 123 helpful votes
The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Matthew 25:40 ESV / 121 helpful votes
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Jeremiah 22:16 ESV / 120 helpful votes
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.
Deuteronomy 15:7-8 ESV / 120 helpful votes
“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
Psalm 35:10 ESV / 118 helpful votes
All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”
Psalm 12:5 ESV / 118 helpful votes
“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
Luke 3:11 ESV / 114 helpful votes
And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Psalm 14:6 ESV / 112 helpful votes
You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.
Luke 14:12-14 ESV / 111 helpful votes
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 107 helpful votes
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 104 helpful votes
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 103 helpful votes
If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.
Proverbs 22:2 ESV / 100 helpful votes
The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.
James 1:27 ESV / 99 helpful votes
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
1 Samuel 2:8 ESV / 99 helpful votes
He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.
Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 98 helpful votes
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Leviticus 23:22 ESV / 98 helpful votes
“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”
Psalm 9:18 ESV / 97 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
Matthew 6:3-4 ESV / 96 helpful votes
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.