Isaiah 58:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up, get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

Genesis 19:2

He said, “Please, my lords, turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet; then you can rise early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the square.”

2 Chronicles 28:15

Then those who were mentioned by name got up and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them; they clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them; and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kindred at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred; our children are the same as their children; and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished; we are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”

Job 22:7

You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Psalm 112:9

They have distributed freely; they have given to the poor; their righteousness endures forever; their horn is exalted in honor.

Proverbs 11:17

Those who are kind reward themselves, but the cruel do themselves harm.

Proverbs 22:9

Those who are generous are blessed, for they share their bread with the poor.

Proverbs 24:11

if you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death, those who go staggering to the slaughter;

Proverbs 25:21

If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat, and if they are thirsty, give them water to drink,

Proverbs 28:27

Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but one who turns a blind eye will get many a curse.

Isaiah 58:10

if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 18:16

does not wrong anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Ezekiel 18:7

does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, may my counsel be acceptable to you: atone for your sins with righteousness and your iniquities with mercy to the oppressed, so that your prosperity may be prolonged.”

Luke 11:41

So give as alms those things that are within and then everything will be clean for you.

Luke 19:8

Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.”

Luke 3:11

In reply he said to them, “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise.”

Acts 16:15

When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.” And she prevailed upon us.

Acts 16:34

He brought them up into the house and set food before them, and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.

Romans 12:13

Contribute to the needs of the saints; pursue hospitality to strangers.

Deuteronomy 22:1

“You shall not watch your neighbor’s ox or sheep straying away and ignore them; you shall take them back to their owner.

1 Timothy 5:10

she must be well attested for her good works, as one who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the saints’ feet, helped the afflicted, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.

Philemon 1:7

I have indeed received much joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, my brother.

Judges 9:2

“Say in the hearing of all the lords of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”