TOPICAL BIBLE
Beneficence
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Leviticus 25:35“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support him among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.Leviticus 25:36Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.Leviticus 25:37You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.Leviticus 25:38I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.Leviticus 25:39“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.Leviticus 25:40As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:Leviticus 25:41then 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.Leviticus 25:42For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.Leviticus 25:43You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.Deuteronomy 15:7If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;Deuteronomy 15:8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.Deuteronomy 15:9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;” and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.Deuteronomy 15:10You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.Deuteronomy 15:11For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.Deuteronomy 15:12If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.Deuteronomy 15:13When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:Deuteronomy 15:14you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.Deuteronomy 15:15You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.Deuteronomy 15:16It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you;” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;Deuteronomy 15:17then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.Deuteronomy 15:18It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.Judges 19:16Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening: now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.Judges 19:17He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”Judges 19:18He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man who takes me into his house.Judges 19:19Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything.”Judges 19:20The old man said, “Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don’t lodge in the street.”Judges 19:21So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder; and they washed their feet, and ate and drink.Nehemiah 5:8I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found never a word.Nehemiah 5:9Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?Nehemiah 5:10I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.Nehemiah 5:11Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”Nehemiah 5:12Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.Nehemiah 8:10Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”Nehemiah 8:11So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be grieved.”Job 29:11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,Job 29:13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.Job 29:15I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.Job 29:16I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.Job 29:17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.Job 31:16“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,Job 31:17or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of itJob 31:18(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother’s womb);Job 31:19if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;Job 31:20if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,Job 31:22then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.Psalm 41:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.Psalm 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.Proverbs 3:27Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.Proverbs 3:28Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.Proverbs 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.Proverbs 22:9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.Proverbs 25:21If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:Proverbs 25:22for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.Proverbs 28:27One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.Isaiah 21:14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.Isaiah 58:6“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
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