Deuteronomy 15:7

WEB

⁷If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

KJV

⁷¶ If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

BSB

⁷If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden ^[+] your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

FBV

⁷If there are Israelites who are poor in any of your towns in the country the Lord your God is giving you, don't act in an unfeeling or miserly way towards them.

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Extra References

Deuteronomy 15:9

⁹Beware that there not be a wicked 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 the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.

Proverbs 21:13

¹³Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

1 John 3:16-17

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?

James 2:15-16

¹⁵And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, ¹⁶and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

Matthew 18:30

³⁰He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due.