TOPICAL BIBLE
Beneficence
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Leviticus 25:35‘And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;Leviticus 25:36thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;Leviticus 25:37thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;Leviticus 25:38I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to become your God.Leviticus 25:39‘And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;Leviticus 25:40as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee,—Leviticus 25:41then he hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back.Leviticus 25:42For they are My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold with the sale of a servant;Leviticus 25:43thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God.Deuteronomy 15:7‘When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;Deuteronomy 15:8for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh.Deuteronomy 15:9Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart—worthless, saying, Near is the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin;Deuteronomy 15:10thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;Deuteronomy 15:11because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.Deuteronomy 15:12‘When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years—then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee.Deuteronomy 15:13And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;Deuteronomy 15:14thou dost certainly encircle him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy wine-vat; of that which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou dost give to him,Deuteronomy 15:15and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.Deuteronomy 15:16And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee—because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because it is good for him with thee—Deuteronomy 15:17then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put it through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so.Deuteronomy 15:18‘It is not hard in thine eyes, in thy sending him away free from thee; for the double of the hire of an hireling he hath served thee six years, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost.Judges 19:16And lo, a man, an aged one, hath come from his work from the field in the evening, and the man is of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he is a sojourner in Gibeah, and the men of the place are Benjamites.Judges 19:17And he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the man, the traveller, in a broad place of the city, and the aged man saith, ‘Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?’Judges 19:18And he saith unto him, ‘We are passing over from Beth-Lehem-Judah unto the sides of the hill-country of Ephraim—thence I am, and I go unto Beth-Lehem-Judah; and to the house of Jehovah I am going, and there is no man gathering me into the house,Judges 19:19and both straw and provender are for our asses, and also bread and wine there are for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man with thy servants; there is no lack of anything.’Judges 19:20And the old man saith, ‘Peace to thee; only, all thy lack is on me, only in the broad place lodge not.’Judges 19:21And he bringeth him in to his house, and mixeth food for the asses, and they wash their feet, and eat and drink.Nehemiah 5:8and say to them, ‘We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that is in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!’ and they are silent, and have not found a word.Nehemiah 5:9And I say, ‘Not good is the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?Nehemiah 5:10And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.Nehemiah 5:11Give back, I pray you, to them, as to-day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, and the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, of the new wine, and of the oil, that ye are exacting of them.’Nehemiah 5:12And they say, ‘We give back, and of them we seek nothing; so we do as thou art saying.’ And I call the priests, and cause them to swear to do according to this thing;Nehemiah 8:10And he saith to them, ‘Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day is holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.’Nehemiah 8:11And the Levites are keeping all the people silent, saying, ‘Be silent, for to-day is holy, and be not grieved.’Job 29:11For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth to me.Job 29:12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.Job 29:13The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.Job 29:14Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.Job 29:15Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I.Job 29:16A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.Job 29:17And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.Job 31:16If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,Job 31:17And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,Job 31:18(But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)Job 31:19If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,Job 31:20If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,Job 31:21If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,Job 31:22My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.Job 31:23For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able.Psalm 41:1To the Overseer.—A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.Psalm 112:9He hath scattered—hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.Proverbs 3:27Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand is toward God to do it.Proverbs 3:28Say not thou to thy friend, ‘Go, and return, and to-morrow I give,’ And substance with thee.Proverbs 11:25A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.Proverbs 22:9The good of eye—he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.Proverbs 25:21If he who is hating thee doth hunger, cause him to eat bread, And if he thirst, cause him to drink water.Proverbs 25:22For coals thou art putting on his head, And Jehovah giveth recompense to thee.Proverbs 28:27Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.Isaiah 21:14To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive.Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fast that I chose—To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?
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