Deuteronomy 15:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Be careful that you do not entertain a mean thought, thinking, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and therefore view your needy neighbor with hostility and give nothing; your neighbor might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.

Cross References

Job 34:28

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—

Psalm 101:3

I will not set before my eyes anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Exodus 22:22

You shall not abuse any widow or orphan.

Exodus 22:23

If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry;

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings,

Proverbs 14:21

Those who despise their neighbors are sinners, but happy are those who are kind to the poor.

Proverbs 21:13

If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of the stingy; do not desire their delicacies,

Proverbs 24:9

The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to all.

Proverbs 28:22

The miser is in a hurry to get rich and does not know that loss is sure to come.

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Jeremiah 17:10

I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.

Jeremiah 34:14

“Every seventh year each of you must set free any Hebrews who have been sold to you and have served you six years; you must set them free from your service.” But your ancestors did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Matthew 20:15

Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Deuteronomy 15:1

“Every seventh year you shall grant a remission of debts.

Deuteronomy 24:15

You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Moses commanded them, “Every seventh year, in the scheduled year of remission, during the Festival of Booths,

James 4:17

Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it commits sin.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the spirit that God caused to dwell in us desire envy?

James 5:4

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 5:9

Brothers and sisters, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the doors!

1 Peter 4:9

Be hospitable to one another without complaining.