Leviticus 25:35

World English Bible (2000)

"'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.

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  • Deut 15:7-8 : 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; 8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
  • Luke 6:35 : 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
  • Ps 37:26 : 26 All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
  • Acts 11:29 : 29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
  • Rom 12:13 : 13 contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
  • Rom 12:18 : 18 If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
  • Rom 12:20 : 20 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
  • 2 Cor 9:1 : 1 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,
  • 2 Cor 9:12-15 : 12 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God; 13 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all; 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
  • Gal 2:10 : 10 They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
  • Jas 2:5-6 : 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
  • Prov 14:20-21 : 20 The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends. 21 He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.
  • Exod 23:9 : 9 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
  • Lev 19:34 : 34 The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
  • Lev 25:25 : 25 "'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.
  • Deut 10:18-19 : 18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing. 19 Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
  • Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
  • Prov 19:17 : 17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
  • Matt 25:35 : 35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
  • Mark 14:7 : 7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
  • John 12:8 : 8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
  • Deut 24:14-15 : 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.

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    47 "'If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family;

    48 after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

  • Lev 25:36-37
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    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.

  • Lev 25:25-26
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    25 "'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

    26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

  • Deut 15:7-13
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    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;

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

    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.

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  • Lev 25:39-40
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    39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

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  • Deut 15:2-4
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    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 22:1-4
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    1 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.

    2 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.

    3 So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.

    4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

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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:

  • Deut 23:19-20
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    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.

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    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.

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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.

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    5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • 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.

  • Lev 25:45
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    45 Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.

  • Deut 10:19
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    19 Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

  • 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;

  • 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.

  • Zech 7:10
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    10 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

  • Lev 25:14
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    14 "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

  • Deut 26:11-12
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    11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.

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    15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

  • Num 27:10
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    10 If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.

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    9 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

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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.

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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?

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    17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

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    21 "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.