Quotes about Charity
You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
- Deuteronomy 15:3
If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
- Deuteronomy 15:7
Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
- Deuteronomy 15:8
Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.
- Deuteronomy 15:10
For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
- Deuteronomy 15:11
And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.
- Deuteronomy 15:13
If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 24:19
When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
- Deuteronomy 24:20
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
- Deuteronomy 24:21
When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 26:12
Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”
- Ruth 2:16
He sent gifts to those in Bethel, Ramoth Negev, and Jattir;
- 1 Samuel 30:27