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 4:27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.
• Deut 6:25It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
• Exod 22:26–27If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
• Deut 24:15In his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Job 31:16–20“If 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 beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
• Eph 4:26“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
• Ezek 18:12has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
• Isa 58:8Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you; and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
• Ezek 18:7and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
• Ezek 33:15if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Job 29:11–13For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
• Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
• Jas 2:13–23For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Ps 106:30–31Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.
• 2 Tim 1:16–18May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
• Gen 15:6He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
• Deut 15:9–10Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
• Job 24:7–8They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
• Ezek 18:16neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
• 2 Cor 9:13–14seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

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