"If you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down. For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am gracious." vv.26-27
Read chapter 22
This chapter gone in to moral principles, not just laws. God has concern for the poor and makes sure they're not subject to abusive practices of money lenders nor their items needed for survival taken from them as interest or collateral. The Lord reveals one of His characteristics, that is grace. Grace and forgiveness are the same word (one's a noun, one's a verb). Bot undeserved favor. Not just a new testament command but an old one too that we are to forgive as the Lord forgives. When the Lord hears his cry, it's not just a listening to the poor man's prayer but hearing with action and response to either care for him in the night or avenge the mistreatment done. What moral codes do you see abused today?
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