Deuteronomy 15:11
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
KJV
Non deerunt pauperes in terra habitationis tuæ : idcirco ego præcipio tibi, ut aperias manum fratri tuo egeno et pauperi, qui tecum versatur in terra.
Vulgate
οὐ γὰρ μὴ ἐκλίπῃ ἐνδεὴς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς· διὰ τοῦτο ἐγώ σοι ἐντέλλομαι ποιεῖν τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦτο λέγων Ἀνοίγων ἀνοίξεις τὰς χεῖράς σου τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου τῷ πένητι καὶ τῷ ἐπιδεομένῳ τῷ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς σου.
LXX
For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.
ASV
כִּ֛י לֹא יֶחְדַּ֥ל אֶבְי֖וֹן מִ/קֶּ֣רֶב הָ/אָ֑רֶץ עַל כֵּ֞ן אָנֹכִ֤י מְצַוְּ/ךָ֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר פָּ֠תֹחַ תִּפְתַּ֨ח אֶת יָדְ/ךָ֜ לְ/אָחִ֧י/ךָ לַ/עֲנִיֶּ֛/ךָ וּ/לְ/אֶבְיֹנְ/ךָ֖ בְּ/אַרְצֶֽ/ךָ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2449Beginning with the Old Testament, all kinds of juridical measures (the jubilee year of forgiveness of debts, prohibition of loans at interest and the keeping of collateral, the obligation to tithe, the daily payment of the day-laborer, the right to glean vines and fields) answer the exhortation of Deuteronomy: "For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command …
Cross-references
- 1Cor 16:2 — Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
- 1John 3:16 — Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
- 2Cor 8:2 — How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
- Acts 2:45 — And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
- Acts 4:32 — And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
- Acts 11:28 — And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
- Deut 15:8 — But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
- Jas 1:9 — Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
- John 12:8 — For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
- John 12:8 — For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
- Luke 12:33 — Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
- Mark 14:7 — For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
- Mark 14:7 — For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
- Matt 5:22 — But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but wh
- Matt 5:42 — Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
- Matt 26:11 — For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
- Matt 26:11 — For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
- Prov 22:2 — The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
- Prov 31:20 — She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
- Ps 112:9 — He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.