a light: 1 John 3:1
a poor man: 1 Samuel 9:21; Proverbs 14:20, Proverbs 19:6-7; Ecclesiastes 9:15-16
and lightly: Psalms 119:141
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1 Samuel 18:23
1 Samuel 18:23
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