Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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:
Bible References
Thou shalt
Deuteronomy 15:9
Take thou heed to thyself lest there be something near thine abandoned heart, saying - Drawing nigh, is the seventh year the year of release, and so thine eye be evil, against thy needy brother, and thou give not unto him, - and he cry out against thee unto Yahweh, and it become in thee a sin!
Proverbs 21:13
He that shutteth his ear from the cry of the poor, even he, shall call, and not be answered.
Matthew 18:30
He, however, would not, but went away and cast him into prison, - until he should pay what was owing.
James 2:15
If, a brother or sister, should be naked, and coming short of the daily food,
1 John 3:16
Hereby, have we come to understand love: in that, He, for us, his life laid down; and, we, ought, for the brethren, our lives to lay down.