Deuteronomy 15:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 24:15 : 15 in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?
  • Prov 23:6 : 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 he that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.
  • Exod 22:23 : 23 If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
  • Job 34:28 : 28 So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
  • Jas 5:9 : 9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 using hospitality one to another without murmuring:
  • 1 John 3:15-17 : 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, He also shall cry, but shall not be heard.
  • Deut 15:1 : 1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
  • Deut 28:54-56 : 54 The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining; 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
  • Prov 24:9 : 9 The thought of foolishness is sin; And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
  • Matt 25:41-45 : 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not unto me.
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
  • Rom 7:8-9 : 8 but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead. 9 And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 15:10-14
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    83%

    10Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

    11For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.

    12If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

    13And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:

    14thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

  • Deut 15:7-8
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    81%

    7If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother;

    8but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wanteth.

  • Deut 15:1-4
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    1At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

    2And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah's release hath been proclaimed.

    3Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it: but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.

    4Howbeit there shall be no poor with thee; (for Jehovah will surely bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it;)

  • Deut 24:14-15
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    77%

    14Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates:

    15in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.

  • Zech 7:10
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    10and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.

  • Exod 22:25
    75%

    25If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

  • Exod 23:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:

    11but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.

  • Jer 34:14
    75%

    14At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

  • Lev 25:35-37
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    74%

    35And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: [as] a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee.

    36Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

    37Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

  • Lev 25:39
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    39And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-servant.

  • Exod 23:6
    73%

    6Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to thy poor in his cause.

  • Prov 22:9
    73%

    9He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he giveth of his bread to the poor.

  • Deut 24:12
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    12And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

  • Deut 14:27
    72%

    27And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.

  • Deut 24:10
    72%

    10When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

  • Lev 19:9-10
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    72%

    9And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest.

    10And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God.

  • Lev 25:14
    72%

    14And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.

  • Prov 23:6
    72%

    6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:

  • Lev 19:15
    72%

    15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

  • Deut 23:19-20
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    72%

    19Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent upon interest:

    20unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest, that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

  • Deut 24:19
    72%

    19When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

  • Prov 19:17
    71%

    17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto Jehovah, And his good deed will he pay him again.

  • Prov 28:27
    71%

    27He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; But he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

  • Prov 3:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

    28Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give; When thou hast it by thee.

  • Lev 25:20
    71%

    20And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;

  • Deut 22:1
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    1Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother.

  • Lev 19:17
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    17Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

  • Lev 25:4
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    4but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto Jehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

  • Deut 15:18
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    18It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of a hireling hath he served thee six years: and Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge;

  • Deut 14:29
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    29and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.

  • Deut 19:19
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    19then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to do unto his brother: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

  • Lev 25:17
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    17And ye shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am Jehovah your God.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.