Quotes about Kindness
If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
— Deuteronomy 15:7
Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
— Deuteronomy 15:8
Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.
— Deuteronomy 15:10
For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
— Deuteronomy 15:11
And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.
— Deuteronomy 15:13
You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.
— Deuteronomy 15:14
If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.
— Deuteronomy 22:1
And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
— Deuteronomy 22:3
If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
— Deuteronomy 22:4
Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
— Deuteronomy 23:16
be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.
— Deuteronomy 24:13
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
— Deuteronomy 25:4