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Bible Verses About Poor

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  1. “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

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

  3. for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

  4. neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

  5. “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  6. but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

  7. The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.

  8. “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

  9. If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”

  10. “If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an efah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;

  11. and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

  12. “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

  13. You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

  14. “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

  15. “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.’”

  16. “‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

  17. If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

  18. then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

  19. But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

  20. “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

  21. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

  22. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

  23. “‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

  24. As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

  25. then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.