Deuteronomy 15:11

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Cross References

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.

Matthew 26:11

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

John 12:8

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

Deuteronomy 15:8

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

Proverbs 22:2

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

Luke 12:33

Sell that which 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.

Acts 2:45

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

Matthew 5:42

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

Deuteronomy 15:7

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

Proverbs 31:20

She stretcheth 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 taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

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 Jehovah, And his good deed will he pay him again.