³⁴ And ^(A)if you ^(B)lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.

^42 (A)Give to the one who begs from you, and ^(B)do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

The Parable of the Great Banquet

¹² He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give ^(A)a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers^[a] or your relatives or rich neighbors, ^(B)lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. ¹³ But when you give a feast, ^(C)invite ^(D)the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, ¹⁴ and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid ^(E)at ^(F)the resurrection of the just.”

³⁵ But ^(A)love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and ^(B)you will be sons of ^(C)the Most High, for ^(D)he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

⁸ but ^(A)you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. ⁹ Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your ^(B)eye look grudgingly^[a] on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he ^(C)cry to the Lord against you, and ^(D)you be guilty of sin. ¹⁰ You shall give to him freely, and ^(E)your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because ^(F)for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. ¹¹ For ^(G)there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ^(H)‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’