Proverbs 22:2

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Proverbs 22:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

2 The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.

3 The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

4 The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 29:13

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

1 Samuel 2:7

The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

Psalms 49:1

Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,

Psalms 49:2

both low and high, rich and poor alike.

Luke 16:19

Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

Luke 16:20

And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores

1 Corinthians 12:21

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”

James 2:2

Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.

James 2:3

If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”

James 2:4

have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

Proverbs 14:31

Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

Job 31:15

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

Job 34:19

who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.