Deuteronomy 15:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely give him sufficient for his need, in what he wants.

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  • Matt 5:42 : 42 Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.
  • Luke 6:34 : 34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what thanks do you have? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.

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  • Deut 15:6-7
    2 verses
    87%

    6For the LORD your God blesses you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

    7If there is among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother.

  • Deut 15:9-14
    6 verses
    84%

    9Beware that there is not a wicked thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,' and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.

    10You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.

    11For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.

    12And if your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

    13And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty.

    14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

  • Deut 28:12
    78%

    12The LORD shall open unto you His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend unto many nations, and you shall not borrow.

  • Exod 22:25
    76%

    25If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

  • Prov 19:17
    76%

    17He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, and that which he has given will He pay him again.

  • Lev 25:35-37
    3 verses
    75%

    35And if your brother becomes poor, and falls into decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yes, though he is a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.

    36Take no usury from him, or increase; but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.

    37You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.

  • Prov 22:9
    75%

    9He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

  • Deut 14:29
    74%

    29And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

  • Deut 23:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19You shall not lend with interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent with interest:

    20To a stranger you may lend with interest; but to your brother you shall not lend with interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are going to possess.

  • Deut 15:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1At the end of every seven years, you shall make a release.

    2And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor who lends anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it from his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD'S release.

    3Of a foreigner, you may require it again, but what is yours with your brother your hand shall release;

    4Except when there are no poor among you; for the LORD will greatly bless you in the land the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it.

  • Deut 24:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates:

    15You shall give him his wages on the same day, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

  • Deut 24:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

    11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you.

    12And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

  • Prov 3:27
    73%

    27Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

  • Ps 145:16
    73%

    16You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

  • Prov 28:27
    73%

    27He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Matt 5:42
    72%

    42Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.

  • Deut 28:8
    72%

    8The LORD shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouses, and in all that you set your hand unto; and He shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • Ezek 18:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

    8He that has not given out loans with interest, nor taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man,

  • Deut 16:17
    72%

    17Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.

  • Prov 28:8
    71%

    8He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.

  • Ps 37:26
    71%

    26He is ever merciful, and lends, and his descendants are blessed.

  • Job 22:7
    71%

    7You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Deut 14:27
    71%

    27And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

  • 2 Cor 8:14
    71%

    14But by equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, and their abundance may supply your lack, that there may be equality:

  • Ps 104:28
    71%

    28What You give them they gather: You open Your hand, they are filled with good.

  • Deut 24:19
    70%

    19When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

  • Deut 8:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17And you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

    18But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

  • Ps 37:21
    70%

    21The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous show mercy and give.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
    70%

    6But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

  • Exod 23:11
    70%

    11but in the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

  • Ps 112:5
    70%

    5A good man shows favor and lends; he will guide his affairs with discretion.

  • Isa 58:7
    70%

    7Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you do not hide yourself from your own flesh?