Deuteronomy 15:9

New International Version

Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:15

Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Matthew 20:15

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

James 5:9

Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!

Jeremiah 17:10

“I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”

Exodus 22:23

If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.

James 5:4

Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Proverbs 28:22

The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host, do not crave his delicacies;

Job 34:28

They caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he heard the cry of the needy.

Exodus 3:7

The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.

1 Peter 4:9

Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.

James 4:17

If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

James 4:5

Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?

Proverbs 24:9

The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.

Proverbs 4:23

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.

Deuteronomy 15:1

At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”

Psalm 101:3

I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it.

Exodus 22:22

“Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Then Moses commanded them: “At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Festival of Tabernacles,

Proverbs 14:21

It is a sin to despise one’s neighbor, but blessed is the one who is kind to the needy.

Jeremiah 34:14

‘Every seventh year each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you six years, you must let them go free.’ Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay attention to me.