Deuteronomy 15:7-11

The Sabbatical Year

⁷ "If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, _r you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, ⁸ but _s you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. ⁹ Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, 'The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your _t eye look grudgingly ₁ on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he _u cry to the Lord against you, and _v you be guilty of sin. ¹⁰ You shall give to him freely, and _w your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because _x for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. ¹¹ For _y there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, _s 'You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.'

1. Cross References
   1 John 3:17
   But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
   
2. Cross References
   Leviticus 25:35
   If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.
   Matthew 5:42
   Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
   Luke 6:34 - 35
   And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 28:54
   The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left.
   Deuteronomy 28:56
   The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter.
   Proverbs 23:6
   Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies.
   Proverbs 28:22
   A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
   Matthew 20:15
   Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?
   
4. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 24:15
   You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.
   
5. Cross References
   Matthew 25:41 - 42
   Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
   
6. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 9:7
   Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
   
7. Cross References
   Proverbs 28:27
   Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
   Deuteronomy 14:29
   And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.
   
8. Cross References
   Matthew 26:11
   For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
   Mark 14:7
   For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.
   John 12:8
   For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.
   
9. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 15:8
   But you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.