Deuteronomy 15:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 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.

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    10 But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.

    11 For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.

    12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

    13 And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:

    14 But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.

  • Deut 15:7-8
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    7 If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him;

    8 But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of.

  • Deut 15:1-4
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    1 At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.

    2 This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.

    3 A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go;

    4 But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;

  • Deut 24:14-15
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    14 Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

    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.

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    10 Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

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    25 If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

  • Exod 23:10-11
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    10 For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;

    11 But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.

  • Jer 34:14
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    14 At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

  • Lev 25:35-37
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    35 And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.

    36 Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.

    37 Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

  • Lev 25:39
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    39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

  • Exod 23:6
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    6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

  • Prov 22:9
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    9 He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

  • Deut 24:12
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    12 If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;

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    27 And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

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    10 If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;

  • Lev 19:9-10
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    10 And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 25:14
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    14 And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

  • Prov 23:6
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    6 Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

  • Lev 19:15
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    15 Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

  • Deut 23:19-20
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    19 Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have:

    20 From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

  • Deut 24:19
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    19 When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands.

  • Prov 19:17
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    17 He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.

  • Prov 28:27
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    27 He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.

  • Prov 3:27-28
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    27 Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

    28 Say not to your neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it by you at the time.

  • Lev 25:20
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    20 And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

  • Deut 22:1
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    1 If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

  • Lev 19:17
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    17 Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

  • Lev 25:4
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    4 But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.

  • Deut 15:18
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    18 Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17 Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

  • Deut 14:29
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    29 And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

  • Deut 19:19
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    19 Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.

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    17 And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

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    17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

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    18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.