Deuteronomy 15:3

American Standard Version (1901)

Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it: but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 23:20 : 20 unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest, that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
  • Matt 17:25-26 : 25 He saith, Yea. And when he came into the house, Jesus spake first to him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth, from whom do they receive toll or tribute? from their sons, or from strangers? 26 And when he said, From strangers, Jesus said unto him, Therefore the sons are free.
  • John 8:35 : 35 And the bondservant abideth not in the house for ever: the son abideth for ever.
  • 1 Cor 6:6-7 : 6 but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
  • Gal 6:10 : 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.
  • Exod 22:25 : 25 If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 15:1-2
    2 verses
    88%

    1At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

    2And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah's release hath been proclaimed.

  • Deut 23:19-20
    2 verses
    81%

    19Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent upon interest:

    20unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest, that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

  • Deut 15:7-15
    9 verses
    78%

    7If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother;

    8but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wanteth.

    9Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

    10Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

    11For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.

    12If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

    13And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:

    14thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

    15And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to-day.

  • Lev 25:35-37
    3 verses
    77%

    35And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: [as] a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee.

    36Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

    37Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

  • Lev 25:47-49
    3 verses
    77%

    47And if a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxed rich, and thy brother be waxed poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger [or] sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family;

    48after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brethren may redeem him;

    49or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be waxed rich, he may redeem himself.

  • Lev 25:39-41
    3 verses
    77%

    39And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-servant.

    40As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee:

    41then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

  • Lev 25:24-28
    5 verses
    76%

    24And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

    25If thy brother be waxed poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold.

    26And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxed rich and find sufficient to redeem it;

    27then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession.

    28But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

  • Deut 24:10-14
    5 verses
    76%

    10When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

    11Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.

    12And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

    13thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.

    14Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates:

  • Jer 34:14
    75%

    14At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

  • Deut 22:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother.

    2And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him.

    3And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found: thou mayest not hide thyself.

  • Exod 22:25
    73%

    25If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

  • Lev 25:13-15
    3 verses
    71%

    13In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

    14And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.

    15According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, [and] according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee.

  • Lev 25:45
    71%

    45Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall be your possession.

  • Deut 15:4
    71%

    4Howbeit there shall be no poor with thee; (for Jehovah will surely bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it;)

  • Deut 14:27
    71%

    27And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.

  • Deut 24:17-19
    3 verses
    70%

    17Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge;

    18but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

    19When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

  • Jer 34:9
    70%

    9that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, that is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.

  • Deut 15:18
    70%

    18It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of a hireling hath he served thee six years: and Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.

  • Prov 22:27
    70%

    27If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

  • Deut 23:7
    70%

    7Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a sojourner in his land.