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Your Faith Your Finance

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      • Poverty In The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
      • Money In The Gospels
      • Poverty And Wealth In The Rest Of The New Testament
      • Poverty, Equality And The Churches
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    • Charity, Change And Choices About Money
    • Debt, Interest And Usury
    • Poverty In The Bible And Today
    • Jubilee And Justice
    • Jesus And Economic Action
    • Longer Exercise: Your Church’s Money
      • Part A
      • Part B
    • Longer Exercise: Your Own Money
      • Part A
      • Part B

Wealth And Poverty In The Bible

The mistreatment and exploitation of poor people is mentioned in the Bible more than almost any other sin. Jesus spoke of good news to the poor and talked of a kingdom in which the first would be last and the last first.

Part 1 – Poverty In The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

Part 2 – Money In The Gospels

Part 3 – Poverty And Wealth In The Rest Of The New Testament

Part 4 – Poverty, Equality And The Churches

Wealth And Poverty In The Bible

  • Poverty In The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
  • Money In The Gospels
  • Poverty And Wealth In The Rest Of The New Testament
  • Poverty, Equality And The Churches
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter?... If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness and your night will become like the noonday. The Lord will guide you always.”

– Isaiah 58, 6-11 (NIV)
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