Deuteronomy 26:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

Levite

I have not

1 John 3:17

Forgotten

Psalm 119:93

Proverbs 3:1

General references

Numbers 13:27

Deuteronomy 14:22

Bible References

Levite

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, the year of tithing - and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, and they have eaten in thy gates and filled themselves

and the Levite shall come because he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow which are within thy city, and shall eat and fill themselves: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the works of thine hand which thou doest.

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in the field and hast forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again and fetch it: But it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand.

"When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain?

I have not

Because I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not forsaken my God, as the wicked doth. {TYNDALE: For I kept the ways of the LORD, and did no wickedness, forsaking my God.}

{A Psalm of David} Be thou my Judge, O LORD, for I walk innocently. My trust hath been also in the LORD; therefore shall I not fall.

And therefore study I to have a clear conscience toward God, and toward man also.

Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness - and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God - we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.

The God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

He, then, that hath the substance of the world, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him: how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Forgotten

I will never forget thy commandments, for with them thou quickenest me.

My son, forget not my law, but see that thine heart keep my commandments.

General references

And they told him, saying, "We came unto the land whither thou sendedst us, and surely it is a land that floweth with milk and honey and here is of the fruit of it.

Thou shalt tithe all the increase of thy seed that cometh out of the field year by year.