Deuteronomy 24:13

Consideration For People In Need

¹² If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge; ¹³ you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God. ¹⁴ You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

Presence of the Lord

Jehovah

Deuteronomy 6:25

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us."

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

Exodus 22:26-27

If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

Deuteronomy 24:15

in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

Psalm 112:9

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

Genesis 15:6

He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

Deuteronomy 15:9-10

Beware that there not be a base 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 Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Job 24:7-8

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

Job 29:11-13

For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

Job 31:16-20

"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Psalm 106:30-31

Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.

Isaiah 58:8

Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard.

Ezekiel 18:7

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 18:12

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

Ezekiel 18:16

neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 33:15

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Amos 2:8

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

2 Corinthians 9:13-14

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

Ephesians 4:26

"Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,

2 Timothy 1:16-18

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 2:13-23

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.