Deuteronomy 15:9

New King James 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 among you.

Cross References

Job 34:28

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him; For He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 101:3

I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not cling to me.

Psalm 12:5

“For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”

Psalm 9:12

When He avenges blood, He remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the humble.

Exodus 22:22

“You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:23

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

Exodus 3:7

And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Proverbs 14:21

He who despises his neighbor sins; But he who has mercy on the poor, happy is he.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be heard.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a miser, Nor desire his delicacies;

Proverbs 24:9

The devising of foolishness is sin, And the scoffer is an abomination to men.

Proverbs 28:22

A man with an evil eye hastens after riches, And does not consider that poverty will come upon him.

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.

Jeremiah 34:14

“At the end of seven years let every man set free his Hebrew brother, who has been sold to him; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you.” But your fathers did not obey Me nor incline their ear.

Matthew 15:19

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

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?’

Deuteronomy 15:1

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

Deuteronomy 24:15

Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.

Deuteronomy 31:10

And Moses commanded them, saying: “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles,

James 4:17

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

James 4:5

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?

James 5:4

Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

James 5:9

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

1 Peter 4:9

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.