¹¹ For ^(A)the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall ^[a]open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’

^7 (A)For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish you may do them good; ^(B)but Me you do not have always.

^11 (A)For you have the poor with you always, but ^(B)Me you do not have always.

⁸ For ^(A)the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.”

⁸ but ^(A)you shall ^[a]open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs.

The Outworking of Love

^16 (A)By this we know love, ^(B)because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ But ^(C)whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

¹⁸ My little children, ^(D)let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Sharing in All Things

³² Now the multitude of those who believed ^(A)were of one heart and one soul; ^(B)neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. ³³ And with ^(C)great power the apostles gave ^(D)witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And ^(E)great grace was upon them all. ³⁴ Nor was there anyone among them who lacked; ^(F)for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, ^35 (G)and laid them at the apostles’ feet; ^(H)and they distributed to each as anyone had need.

^33 (A)Sell what you have and give ^(B)alms; ^(C)provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys.