504 verses about Neighbor

You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

He who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another;

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.

Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.

A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.

Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around with slanders.

Everyone will deceive their neighbors, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

“Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this great city?’

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has Yahweh answered?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh said?’

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.

You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor. You had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,

and 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;

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

who hasn’t eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?”’

It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children among you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

It shall happen, that in whatever tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord Yahweh.

“The five thousand that are left in the width, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in the middle of it.

Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

In that day,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.’”

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

In the days of Enemessar, I did many alms deeds to my kindred: I gave my bread to the hungry,

and my garments to the naked. If I saw any of my race dead, and cast forth on the wall of Ninevah, I buried him.