⁷ If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him;

⁹ And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

¹³ He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

¹⁵ If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,

¹⁶ And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?

¹⁶ In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

¹⁷ But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

³⁰ And he would not: but went and put him into prison till he had made payment of the debt.