Deuteronomy 15:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Matt 26:11 : 11 For you always have the poor with you; but you don't always have me.
  • 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 15:8 : 8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
  • Prov 22:2 : 2 The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
  • Matt 5:42 : 42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
  • Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
  • Acts 2:45 : 45 They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
  • Acts 4:32-35 : 32 The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. 33 With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all. 34 For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, 35 and laid them at the apostles' feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.
  • Acts 11:28-30 : 28 One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius. 29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea; 30 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
  • 2 Cor 8:2-9 : 2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality. 3 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord, 4 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints. 5 This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God. 6 So we urged Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace. 7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace. 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love. 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.
  • 1 John 3:16-18 : 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 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? 18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 15:7-10
    4 verses
    86%

    7 If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, 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.

  • Deut 15:2-5
    4 verses
    81%

    2 This is the manner 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;)

    5 if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.

  • Lev 25:35-37
    3 verses
    77%

    35 "'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.

    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.

  • Deut 24:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    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 14:29
    75%

    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 15:12-15
    4 verses
    74%

    12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve 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.

    15 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.

  • Prov 22:9
    74%

    9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; For he shares his food with the poor.

  • Ps 9:18
    74%

    18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

  • Ps 41:1
    74%

    1 > Blessed is he who considers the poor: Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

  • Prov 19:17
    74%

    17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; He will reward him.

  • Exod 23:11
    74%

    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 like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

  • Lev 23:22
    73%

    22 "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'"

  • Deut 24:19
    73%

    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.

  • Exod 22:25
    73%

    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 22:16
    73%

    16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, Both come to poverty.

  • Lev 19:10
    73%

    10 You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Exod 23:6
    73%

    6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Lev 25:39
    73%

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

  • Deut 28:12
    73%

    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.

  • Prov 31:9
    72%

    9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."

  • Prov 28:27
    72%

    27 One who gives to the poor has no lack; But one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

  • Matt 26:11
    72%

    11 For you always have the poor with you; but you don't always have me.

  • Prov 28:3
    72%

    3 A needy man who oppresses the poor Is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • Lev 19:15
    72%

    15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

  • Deut 24:12
    71%

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

  • Zech 7:10
    71%

    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.'

  • Deut 14:27
    71%

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

  • Prov 22:22
    71%

    22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; And don't crush the needy in court;

  • Prov 14:31
    71%

    31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, But he who is kind to the needy honors him.

  • John 12:8
    71%

    8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."

  • Deut 26:12
    71%

    12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.

  • Job 22:7
    71%

    7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Job 22:9
    71%

    9 You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Job 36:15
    71%

    15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression.

  • Mark 14:7
    71%

    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.

  • Lev 25:47
    70%

    47 "'If a stranger or sojourner 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;

  • Amos 8:4
    70%

    4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, And cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, And take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, But you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink their wine.