Deuteronomy 15:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers within any of your city gates in the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted towards your poor brother.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart, “The seventh year, the year of cancelling debts, is near,” and you are stingy towards your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty.

Proverbs 21:13

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will himself also call out and not be answered.

Matthew 18:30

But he wasn’t willing. Instead, he went and threw him into prison until he could pay what was owed.

Matthew 5:42

Give to the one who asks you, and don’t turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

Exodus 22:25

‘If you lend silver to my people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a creditor to him; you must not charge him interest.

Leviticus 25:35

‘If your brother becomes destitute and cannot sustain himself among  you, you are to support him as a foreigner or temporary resident, so that he can continue to live among you.

Deuteronomy 15:11

For there will never cease to be poor people in the land;  that is why I am commanding you, “Open your hand willingly to your poor and needy brother in your land.”

Deuteronomy 24:14

‘Do not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether one of your Israelite brothers or one of the resident foreigners in a town  in your land.

Nehemiah 5:1

There was a widespread outcry from the people and their wives against their Jewish countrymen.

Proverbs 19:17

Kindness to the poor is a loan to the  Lord, and he will give a reward to the lender.  ,

Isaiah 58:10

and if you offer yourself  to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted one, then your light will shine in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

Esther 9:19

This explains why the rural Jews who live in villages observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a time of rejoicing and feasting. It is a holiday when they send gifts to one another.

Esther 9:22

because during those days the Jews gained relief from  their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday.  They were to be days of feasting,  rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.