Deuteronomy 15:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;

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  • Deut 15:9 : 9 `Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart -- worthless, saying, Near `is' the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin;
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.
  • Jas 2:15-16 : 15 and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food, 16 and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what `is' the profit?
  • 1 John 3:16-17 : 16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; 17 and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?
  • Matt 18:30 : 30 and he would not, but having gone away, he cast him into prison, till he might pay that which was owing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 15:8-14
    7 verses
    87%

    8for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh.

    9`Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart -- worthless, saying, Near `is' the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin;

    10thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;

    11because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.

    12`When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years -- then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee.

    13And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;

    14thou dost certainly encircle him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy wine-vat; `of' that which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou dost give to him,

  • Lev 25:35-37
    3 verses
    81%

    35`And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

    36thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

    37thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;

  • Deut 24:14-15
    2 verses
    80%

    14`Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;

    15in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he `is' poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee -- sin.

  • Deut 15:2-5
    4 verses
    79%

    2and this `is' the matter of the release: Every owner of a loan `is' to release his hand which he doth lift up against his neighbour, he doth not exact of his neighbour and of his brother, but hath proclaimed a release to Jehovah;

    3of the stranger thou mayest exact, and that which is thine with thy brother doth thy hand release;

    4only when there is no needy one with thee, for Jehovah doth greatly bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance to possess it.

    5`Only, if thou dost diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this command which I am commanding thee to-day,

  • Exod 22:25
    77%

    25`If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

  • Deut 14:29
    77%

    29and come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who `are' within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.

  • Zech 7:10
    77%

    10And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.

  • Lev 25:47
    75%

    47`And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with thee attaineth `riches', and thy brother with him hath become poor, and he hath been sold to a sojourner, a settler with thee, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,

  • Deut 23:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19`Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.

    20To a stranger thou mayest lend in usury, and to thy brother thou dost not lend in usury, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in every putting forth of thy hand on the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

  • Deut 14:27
    75%

    27As to the Levite who `is' within thy gates, thou dost not forsake him, for he hath no portion and inheritance with thee.

  • Lev 25:39
    74%

    39`And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

  • Prov 28:27
    74%

    27Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.

  • Prov 19:17
    74%

    17Whoso is lending `to' Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

  • Deut 24:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10`When thou liftest up on thy brother a debt of anything, thou dost not go in unto his house to obtain his pledge;

    11at the outside thou dost stand, and the man on whom thou art lifting `it' up is bringing out unto thee the pledge at the outside.

    12`And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;

  • Prov 22:9
    73%

    9The good of eye -- he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.

  • Deut 24:19
    73%

    19`When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in a field, thou dost not turn back to take it; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is; so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

  • Exod 23:6
    73%

    6`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

  • Ps 41:1
    73%

    1To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.

  • Isa 58:7
    73%

    7Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.

  • Prov 22:22
    72%

    22Rob not the poor because he `is' poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

  • Job 22:7
    72%

    7Thou causest not the weary to drink water, And from the hungry thou withholdest bread.

  • 1 John 3:17
    72%

    17and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

  • Jer 7:6
    72%

    6Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,

  • Deut 28:12
    72%

    12`Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure -- the heavens -- to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou -- thou dost not borrow.

  • Lev 19:10
    72%

    10and thy vineyard thou dost not glean, even the omitted part of thy vineyard thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I `am' Jehovah your God.

  • Lev 25:25
    72%

    25`When thy brother becometh poor, and hath sold his possession, then hath his redeemer who is near unto him come, and he hath redeemed the sold thing of his brother;

  • Lev 25:14
    72%

    14`And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

  • Exod 23:11
    72%

    11and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard -- to thine olive-yard.

  • Lev 19:15
    72%

    15`Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

  • Prov 3:27
    71%

    27Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand `is' toward God to do `it'.

  • Prov 21:13
    71%

    13Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

  • Exod 23:3
    71%

    3and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

  • Lev 23:22
    71%

    22`And in your reaping the harvest of your land thou dost not complete the corner of thy field in thy reaping, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I Jehovah `am' your God.'