Favorite Bible Verses from the GOP “Leadership”

Luke 10:27
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself – but not your poor neighbor.”

Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of the privileged and its righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. But don’t worry about educating him or feeding him.

Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’ Just show me your insurance card.

Matthew 25:35
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, because I was a straight, white, American, adult male.

Isaiah 58:10
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 – as long as you make sure they are drug free first.

Proverbs 28:27
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse – unless, of course, it would mean you have to make a personal sacrifice.

Luke 3:11
And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise, but make certain he isn’t just ‘gaming the system.'”

Proverbs 22:9
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. But remember, just BREAD, they are lucky they even get that.

Proverbs 23:4
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. Instead build wealth on the backs of the least of these.

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. White or black, straight or gay, rich or poor? Yeah, that’s a whole different story.
 

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