Deuteronomy 15:11

A Conservative Version

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall surely open thy hand to thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.

Cross References

Mark 14:7

For ye always have the poor with you, and whenever ye may desire ye can do them well, but ye do not always have me.

Matthew 26:11

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

John 12:8

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

Deuteronomy 15:8

but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants.

Proverbs 22:2

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

Luke 12:33

Sell things possessed by you, and give charity. Make for yourselves purses not becoming old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where no thief approaches, nor moth corrupts.

Acts 2:45

And they sold properties and possessions, and divided them to all, according as any man had need.

Matthew 5:42

Give to him who asks thee, and turn thou not away from him who wants to borrow from thee.

Deuteronomy 15:7

If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother,

Proverbs 31:20

She stretches out her hand to the poor, yea, she reaches forth her hands to the needy.

Ezekiel 18:7

and has not wronged any man, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to a hungry man, and has covered a naked man with a garment,

Exodus 23:11

but the seventh year thou shall let it rest and lay fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shall deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.

Proverbs 19:17

He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.