Deuteronomy 15:7

Revised Standard Version

“If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:1

Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brethren.

Esther 9:19

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the open towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting and holiday-making, and a day on which they send choice portions to one another.

Esther 9:22

as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending choice portions to one another and gifts to the poor.

Exodus 22:25

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from him.

Proverbs 19:17

He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Proverbs 21:13

He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.

Isaiah 58:10

if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

Leviticus 25:35

“And if your brother becomes poor, and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.

Matthew 18:30

He refused and went and put him in prison till he should pay the debt.

Matthew 5:42

Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.

Deuteronomy 15:11

For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in the land.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye be hostile to your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and it be sin in you.

Deuteronomy 24:14

“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brethren or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns;