Deuteronomy 15:2

New International Reader's Version

Have you made a loan to one of your own people? Then forgive what is owed to you. You can’t require that person to pay you back. The Lord’s time to forgive what is owed has been announced.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

“The people around us will bring goods and grain to sell on the Sabbath day. But we won’t buy anything from them on the Sabbath day. In fact, we won’t buy anything from them on any holy day. Every seventh year we won’t farm the land. And we’ll forgive people what they owe us.

Isaiah 58:3

‘We have gone without food,’ they say. ‘Why haven’t you noticed it? We have made ourselves suffer. Why haven’t you paid any attention to us?’ “On the day when you fast, you do as you please. You take advantage of all your workers.

Matthew 6:12

And forgive us our sins, just as we also have forgiven those who sin against us.

Luke 7:42

Neither of them had the money to pay him back. So he let them go without paying. Which of them will love him more?”

Deuteronomy 15:1

At the end of every seven years you must forgive people what they owe you.

Deuteronomy 15:3

You can require someone from another nation to pay you back. But you must forgive what any of your own people owes you.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Then Moses commanded them, “You must read this law at the end of every seven years. Do it in the year when you forgive people what they owe. Read it during the Feast of Booths.

James 2:13

Those who have not shown mercy will not receive mercy when they are judged. To show mercy is better than to judge.