Deuteronomy 15:8

World English Bible (2000)

but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:42 : 42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
  • Luke 6:34 : 34 If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

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  • Deut 15:6-7
    2 verses
    87%

    6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

    7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

  • Deut 15:9-14
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    84%

    9 Beware that there not be a base 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 cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

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

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

    12 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.

    13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

    14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

  • Deut 28:12
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    12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.

  • Exod 22:25
    76%

    25 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

  • Prov 19:17
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    17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

  • Lev 25:35-37
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    35 "'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

    36 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

    37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

  • Prov 22:9
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    9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

  • Deut 14:29
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    29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

  • Deut 23:19-20
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    74%

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

    20 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

  • Deut 15:1-4
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    1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.

    2 This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.

    3 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.

    4 However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)

  • Deut 24:14-15
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    14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

    15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

  • Deut 24:10-12
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    10 When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

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

    12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

  • Prov 3:27
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    27 Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

  • Ps 145:16
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    16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

  • Prov 28:27
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    27 One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Matt 5:42
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    42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

  • Deut 28:8
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    8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Ezek 18:7-8
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    7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

    8 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

  • Deut 16:17
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    17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

  • Ps 37:26
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    26 All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

  • Job 22:7
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    7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Deut 14:27
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    27 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

  • 2 Cor 8:14
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    14 but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

  • Ps 104:28
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    28 You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

  • Deut 24:19
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    19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

  • Deut 8:17-18
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    17 and [lest] you say in your heart, "My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth."

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

  • Ps 37:21
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    21 The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

  • Exod 23:11
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    11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

  • Ps 112:5
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    5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

  • Isa 58:7
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    7 Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?