Deuteronomy 15:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹¹ For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thine hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy 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 thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

Proverbs 19:17

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD, And his good deed will he pay him again.

Proverbs 22:2

The rich and the poor meet together: The LORD is the maker of them all.

Proverbs 31:20

She spreadeth out her hand to the poor; Yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

Ezekiel 18:7

and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

Matthew 26:11

For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

Matthew 5:42

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

Mark 14:7

For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.

Luke 12:33

Sell that ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.

John 12:8

For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

Acts 2:45

and they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all, according as any man had need.

Deuteronomy 15:7

If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

Deuteronomy 15:8

but thou shalt surely open thine hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.