1 Samuel 18:23
"And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?"
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- Ecclesiastes 9:15
"Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 119:141
"I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 19:6
"Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts."
Read in chapter → - 1 John 3:1
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 14:20
"The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends."
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 9:21
"And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?"
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