Beggars
9 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
7 sections
Bartimaeus
- Mark 10:46 Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.
Lazarus
- Luke 16:20–22 And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores …
Not the Seed of the Righteous
- Psalm 37:25 I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
Set Among Princes
- 1 Samuel 2:8 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
The Blind Man
- John 9:8 At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
The Children of the Wicked
- Psalm 109:10 May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
- Proverbs 20:4 The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
- Luke 16:3 The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.
The Lame Man
- Acts 3:2–5 And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts. …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.