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Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
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Do to others as you would have them do to you.
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Do not oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow or the orphan.
- Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor.
- Do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow.
- Do not shed innocent blood.
- Do not send widows away empty.
- Do not crush the strength of orphans.
- Give to strangers, orphans and widows, that they may eat and be satisfied.
- Do not afflict widows or orphans.
- Protect strangers.
- They have treated father and mother lightly. The alien they have oppressed. They have wronged the fatherless and the widows.
- Do not mock the poor. He who rejoices at somebody else’s destruction will not go unpunished.
- Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
- Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
- Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
- Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise person benefit him? What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless? Is it for your piety that he rebukes you and brings charges against you? Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless? You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked. You gave no water to the weary and you withheld food from the hungry, though you were a powerful man, owning land—an honored man, living on it. And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless. That is why snares are all around you, why sudden peril terrifies you, why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
- All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
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