Quotes about Compassion
If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him.
- Deuteronomy 22:2
And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
- Deuteronomy 22:3
If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
- Deuteronomy 22:4
If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
- Deuteronomy 22:6
You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
- Deuteronomy 22:7
Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
- Deuteronomy 22:26
Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
- Deuteronomy 23:7
Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.
- Deuteronomy 23:15
Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
- Deuteronomy 23:16
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
- Deuteronomy 23:19
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
- Deuteronomy 24:12
be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 24:13