¹ > Blessed is he who considers the poor: Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

²¹ He who despises his neighbor sins, But blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

¹⁷ He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; He will reward him.

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

⁸ 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.

⁹ As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever."

¹⁰ Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

¹¹ you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

¹² For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;

¹³ seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

¹⁴ while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

³⁵ In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

¹⁹ They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

¹ Cast your bread on the waters; For you shall find it after many days.

² Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; For you don't know what evil will be on the earth.

⁷ Isn't it to deal 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?

⁸ Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall by your rearward.

⁹ Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;

¹⁰ and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

¹¹ and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.

³⁴ Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

³⁵ for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;

³⁶ naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.'

³⁷ "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

³⁸ When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?

³⁹ When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'

¹³ For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹⁰ Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

⁹ He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

³⁹ But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

⁴⁰ Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.

²⁶ All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

⁷ If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

⁸ but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.

⁹ Beware that there not be a base 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.

¹⁰ You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

¹¹ For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

¹⁶ "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

¹⁷ Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless has not eaten of it

¹⁸ (No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, Her have I guided from my mother's womb);

¹⁹ If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

²⁰ If his heart hasn't blessed me, If he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

³ "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

⁴ Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

¹⁴ The king's wrath is a messenger of death, But a wise man will pacify it.

¹ Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the evil days come, and the years draw near, When you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"

⁷ For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

¹³ But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

¹⁴ and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."

¹⁰ They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do.

¹⁴ We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.

¹³ The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, And feet to the lame.

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.