If there is among you, of your brethren within any of the gates in your land which Jehovah your God is giving you, a man who is in need, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your needy brother,

Beware that there not be a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, approaches; and your eye be evil against your needy brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to Jehovah against you, and it become sin unto you.

For the needy will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, You shall open, to open your hand unto your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.

He who has pity upon the poor lends to Jehovah, and He will make compensation for what he has given.

Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When you see the naked to cover him; and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Then you shall call, and Jehovah will answer; you shall cry out, and He shall say, Here I am. If you take the yoke away from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness;

He answered and said to them, He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack; that there may be equality.

As it is written, He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your bounty beforehand, which you had previously announced, that it may be ready as a blessing and not as greed.

So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not from sorrow or out of duty; for God loves a cheerful giver.

As it is written: He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.

Command those who are rich in this present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share,

But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

A righteous man understands the soul of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination.

If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how is he able to love God whom he has not seen?

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born from God, and everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who is begotten from Him.