THEOSISDeuteronomy 15:11Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation: therefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother, that liveth in the land.
כִּ֛י לֹא־יֶחְדַּ֥ל אֶבְי֖וֹן מִקֶּ֣רֶב הָאָ֑רֶץ עַל־כֵּ֞ן אָנֹכִ֤י מְצַוְּךָ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר פָּ֠תֹחַ תִּפְתַּ֨ח אֶת־יָדְךָ֜ לְאָחִ֧יךָ לַעֲנִיֶּ֛ךָ וּלְאֶבְיֹנְךָ֖ בְּאַרְצֶֽךָ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Mark 14:7For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.
- Matt 26:11For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.
- John 12:8For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.
- Deut 15:8But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him, that which thou perceivest he hath need of.
- Prov 22:2The rich and poor have met one another: the Lord is the maker of them both.
- 1 John 3:16In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
- 1 John 3:18My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
- Acts 4:32And the multitude of believers had but one heart and one soul. Neither did any one say that aught of the things which he possessed was his own: but all things were common unto them.