Deuteronomy 24:13

The pledged garment must be returned by sundown so the poor man can sleep warmly, and his gratitude counts as righteousness before God. Mercy to the needy is reckoned as right standing with the Lord.

Cross-references · 22

• Dan 4:27Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
• Deut 6:25And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
• Exod 22:26–27If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
• Deut 24:15At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
• Ps 112:9He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
• Job 31:16–20If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
• Amos 2:8And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
• Eph 4:26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
• Ezek 18:12Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
• Isa 58:8Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
• Ezek 18:7And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
• Ezek 33:15If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Job 29:11–13When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
• Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
• Jas 2:13–23For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
• Ps 106:30–31Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
• 2 Tim 1:16–18The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
• Gen 15:6And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
• Deut 15:9–10Beware 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.
• Job 24:7–8They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
• Ezek 18:16Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
• 2 Cor 9:13–14Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

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