7If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
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Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. …
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, …
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here is, I. A law for the relief of poor debtors, such (we may suppose) as were insolvent. Every seventh year was a year of release, in which the ground rested from being tilled and servants were discharged from their services; and, among other acts of grace, this was one, that those who had borrowed money, and had not been able to pay it before, should this year be released from it; and though, i…
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