Deuteronomy 15:11

Modern English Version

For the poor will never cease from being in the land. Therefore, I command you, saying, “You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and needy in your land.”

Cross References

Exodus 23:11

but in the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

Proverbs 19:17

He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and He will repay what he has given.

Proverbs 22:2

The rich and the poor have this in common: the Lord is the Maker of them all.

Proverbs 31:20

She extends her palms to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

Ezekiel 18:7

and he has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge; has devastated no one by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Matthew 26:11

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

Matthew 5:42

Give to him who asks you, and from him who would borrow from you do not turn away.

Mark 14:7

You always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish, you may do good to them. But you will not always have Me.

Luke 12:33

Sell your possessions and give alms. Provide yourselves bags that do not grow old, an unfailing treasure in the heavens, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

John 12:8

For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”

Acts 2:45

They sold their property and goods and distributed them to all, according to their need.

Deuteronomy 15:7

If there be among you a poor man, one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the Lord your God has given you, you must not harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

Deuteronomy 15:8

But you shall open your hand wide to him and must surely lend him what is sufficient for his need, in that which he lacks.