Quotes about Compassion
Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
- Deuteronomy 24:14
You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
- Deuteronomy 24:15
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
- Deuteronomy 24:17
If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 24:19
When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
- Deuteronomy 24:20
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
- Deuteronomy 24:21
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
- Deuteronomy 24:22
He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
- Deuteronomy 25:3
you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
- Deuteronomy 25:12
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:19
a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
- Deuteronomy 28:50
then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
- Deuteronomy 30:3