Deuteronomy 15:7

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Beware that there not be a wicked 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.

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more.

Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.

However there will be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.

When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

“Don’t slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.