Deuteronomy 15:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye be hostile to your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and it be sin in you.

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 cleave to me.

Psalm 12:5

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

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 afflict any widow or orphan.

Exodus 22:23

If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings,

Proverbs 14:21

He who despises his neighbor is a sinner, but happy is he who is kind to the poor.

Proverbs 21:13

He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies;

Proverbs 24:9

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

Proverbs 28:22

A miserly man hastens after wealth, and does not know that want will come upon him.

Proverbs 4:23

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

Jeremiah 17:10

“I the Lord search the mind and try the heart, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Jeremiah 34:14

‘At the end of six years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.’ But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.

Matthew 20:15

Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’

Deuteronomy 15:1

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

Deuteronomy 24:15

you shall give him his hire on the day he earns it, before the sun goes down (for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it); lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be sin in you.

Deuteronomy 31:10

And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time of the year of release, at the feast of booths,

James 4:17

Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose it is in vain that the scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us”?

James 5:4

Behold, 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

Do not grumble, brethren, against one another, that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the doors.

1 Peter 4:9

Practice hospitality ungrudgingly to one another.