Deuteronomy 15:9

Tree of Life Version

Watch yourself, so there is no unworthy thing in your heart saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of cancelling debts, is near,’ and your eye is evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing. Then he may call out to Adonai against you, and it will be a sin upon you.

Cross References

Job 34:28

They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, so that He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 101:3

No base thing will I set before my eyes. Twisted behavior I hate— it will not cling to me.

Psalm 12:5

They say: “With our tongue we’ll prevail. We own our lips—who can master us?”

Psalm 9:12

Sing praises to Adonai, who dwells in Zion. Declare His deeds among the peoples.

Exodus 22:22

If you mistreat them in any way, and they cry out to Me, I will surely hear their cry.

Exodus 22:23

My wrath will burn hot, and I will kill you with the sword. So your wives will become widows and your children will become orphans.

Exodus 3:7

Then Adonai said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their slave masters, for I know their pains.

Proverbs 14:21

Whoever despises his neighbor sins, but whoever is gracious to the needy is blessed.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, will also cry out but not be answered.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the food of a stingy person, or desire his delicacies.

Proverbs 24:9

A foolish scheme is sin, and people detest a mocker.

Proverbs 28:22

A stingy man chases after riches, but does not know that poverty will overtake him.

Proverbs 4:23

Guard your heart diligently, for from it flow the springs of life.

Jeremiah 17:10

I Adonai search the heart, I try the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

Jeremiah 34:14

‘At the end of seven years you are to set free every man his brother that is a Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you are let him go free from you.’ But your fathers did not obey Me, nor inclined their ear.

Matthew 15:19

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

Matthew 20:15

Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’

Deuteronomy 15:1

“At the end of every seven years you are to cancel debts.

Deuteronomy 24:15

On that day you are to give him his wages—the sun is not to set on it—for he is poor and sets his heart on it. Otherwise he will cry out against you to Adonai, and you will have sin on you.

Deuteronomy 31:10

Then Moses commanded them saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of cancelling debts, during the feast of Sukkot,

James 4:17

Therefore whoever knows the right thing to do and does not do it—for him it is sin.

James 4:5

Or do you think that in vain the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit which He made to dwell in us”?

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the workers 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 and sisters, so that you may not be judged. Behold, the judge is standing at the doors.

1 Peter 4:9

Be hospitable one to another without grumbling.