Deuteronomy 22:2
Hebrew Text— Deuteronomy 22:2If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.
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“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”
Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.
He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.
and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.
“You shall not steal.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.
“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’ ”
If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”
Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.
David said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”
When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”
He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
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.
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;
“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
“Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today.
Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”
“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
“ ‘ “Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.
“Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.
They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”
He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”
But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
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.
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.