Verse 9
And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.
Referenced Verses
- Deut 24:15 : 15 Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
- Matt 20:15 : 15 Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
- Prov 23:6 : 6 Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
- Prov 28:22 : 22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.
- Exod 22:23 : 23 If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;
- Job 34:28 : 28 So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.
- Jas 5:4 : 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
- Jas 5:9 : 9 Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
- 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 Keep open house for all with a glad heart;
- 1 John 3:15-17 : 15 Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him. 16 In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers. 17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
- Exod 3:7 : 7 And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
- Ps 9:12 : 12 When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
- Prov 4:23 : 23 And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
- Prov 21:13 : 13 He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.
- Deut 15:1 : 1 At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.
- Deut 28:54-56 : 54 That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living; 55 And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns. 56 The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;
- Jer 17:10 : 10 I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
- Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
- Prov 24:9 : 9 The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.
- Matt 25:41-45 : 41 Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels: 42 For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me: 43 I was wandering, and you took me not in; without clothing, and you gave me no clothing; ill, and in prison, and you came not to me. 44 Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you? 45 Then will he make answer to them, saying, Truly I say to you, Because you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.
- Mark 7:21-22 : 21 Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures, 22 The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
- Rom 7:8-9 : 8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead. 9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;
- Jas 4:5 : 5 Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?
- Jas 4:17 : 17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.