but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.
He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; he will reward him.
*'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.
Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.
They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do.