Deuteronomy 15:11

WEB

¹¹For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

KJV

¹¹For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

BSB

¹¹For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.

FBV

¹¹You will always have those who are poor and in need among you, so that's why I'm telling you to give generously to them.

Related Resources

"The Poor You Will Always Have With You": The Mark Series pt 58 (14:1-11 again) - Mike Winger
Players in the Drama of the Cross, Part 2 (Mark 14:3-16) - Grace to You

Extra References

Mark 14:7

⁷For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

Matthew 26:11

¹¹For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.

John 12:8

⁸For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

Deuteronomy 15:8

⁸but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

Proverbs 22:2

²The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is the maker of them all.

¹⁶By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. ¹⁷But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

¹⁸My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Acts 4:32-35

³²The 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. ³³With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all. ³⁴For 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, ³⁵and laid them at the apostles’ feet; and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

Luke 12:33

³³Sell what 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 and no moth destroys.

2 Corinthians 8:2-9

²how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity. ³For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord, ⁴begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints. ⁵This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God. ⁶So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace. ⁷But 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.

⁸I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love. ⁹For 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.

Acts 2:45

⁴⁵They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.