Deuteronomy 15:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you, ‘Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hands to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor in your land.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Poor persons will never disappear from the earth. That’s why I’m giving you this command: you must open your hand generously to your fellow Israelites, to the needy among you, and to the poor who live with you in your land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ The poor will not be absent from the land of your habitation. For this reason, I instruct you to open your hand to your indigent and poor brother, who lives among you in the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation: therefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother, that liveth in the land.

Deuteronomy 15:11 Cross References

Exodus 23:11

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard and with your olive orchard.

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and will be repaid in full.

Proverbs 22:2

The rich and the poor have this in common: the Lord is the maker of them all.

Proverbs 31:20

She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

Ezekiel 18:7

does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Matthew 26:11

For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.

Matthew 5:42

Give to the one who asks of you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you.

Mark 14:7

For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish, but you will not always have me.

Luke 12:33

Sell your possessions and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

John 12:8

You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”

Acts 2:45

they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.

Deuteronomy 15:7

“If there is among you anyone in need, a member of your community in any of your towns within the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor.

Deuteronomy 15:8

You should rather open your hand, willingly lending enough to meet the need, whatever it may be.