but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.