Deuteronomy 15:9

The English Standar Version

Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, 'The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your eye look grudgingly[1] on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin.

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 worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Psalm 12:5

"Because the poor are plundered, 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 mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:23

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

Exodus 3:7

Then the LORD said, "I have surely 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

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;[2] do not desire his delicacies,

Proverbs 24:9

The devising[1] of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.

Proverbs 28:22

A stingy man[3] hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty 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 heart and test the mind,[2] to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."

Jeremiah 34:14

'At the end of seven 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, sexual immorality, 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?'[2]

Deuteronomy 15:1

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

Deuteronomy 24:15

You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the LORD, and you be guilty of sin.

Deuteronomy 31:10

And Moses commanded them, "At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths,

James 4:17

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "He yearns jealously over the spirit that 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, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 5:9

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

1 Peter 4:9

Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.