Deuteronomy 15:9

Modern English Version

Beware lest there be a wicked 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 out to the Lord against you, and it become sin in you.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:15

You must give him his wages on that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor, and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be a sin to you.

Matthew 20:15

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’

James 5:9

Do not grumble against one another, brothers, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give to every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his deeds.

Exodus 22:23

If you afflict them in any way and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages that you kept back by fraud from the laborers who harvested your fields are crying, and the cries of those who harvested have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies.

Proverbs 28:22

He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and does not consider that poverty will come upon him.

Proverbs 23:6

Eat not the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his delicacies,

Job 34:28

so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto Him; and He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Exodus 3:7

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

1 Peter 4:9

Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

James 4:17

Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, it is sin.

James 4:5

Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “He yearns jealously for the spirit that lives in us” ?

Proverbs 24:9

The devising of folly is sin, and the mocker is an abomination to men.

Proverbs 21:13

He who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he also will cry out, but will not be heard.

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 9:12

He who avenges deaths remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the humble.

Deuteronomy 15:1

At the end of every seven years you shall grant a relinquishing of debts.

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy sigh, now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he yearns.”

Psalm 101:3

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Exodus 22:22

You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, at the time of the year of the cancellation of debts, at the Feast of Tabernacles,

Proverbs 14:21

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

Jeremiah 34:14

“At the end of seven years, each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you.” But your fathers did not obey Me or incline their ear.