Deuteronomy 15:7-8
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"If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the LORD your God is giving you, d you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother,
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"but e you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs.
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Cross References
Exodus 23:6
You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute.
Leviticus 25:35 - 37
If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.
Deuteronomy 24:12 - 14
And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.
1 John 3:17
But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
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Cross References
Matthew 5:42
Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.
Galatians 2:10
They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.
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