Leviticus 19:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
  • Deut 24:14-15 : 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.
  • Job 31:39 : 39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
  • Prov 22:22 : 22 Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:
  • Jer 22:3 : 3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.
  • Jer 22:13 : 13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
  • Exod 22:8-9 : 8 If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods. 9 In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.
  • Mark 10:19 : 19 You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.
  • Exod 22:24-27 : 24 And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers. 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. 26 If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down: 27 For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.
  • Lev 6:3 : 3 And the priest is to put on his linen robes and his linen trousers, and take up what is over of the offering after it has been burned on the altar, and put it by the side of the altar.
  • Luke 3:13 : 13 And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.
  • 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.
  • Exod 22:13 : 13 But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was damaged.
  • Exod 22:15 : 15 If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.
  • Exod 22:21 : 21 Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 24:10-15
    6 verses
    80%

    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;

    11 But keep outside till he comes out and gives it to you.

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

    13 But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God.

    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.

  • Lev 19:9-12
    4 verses
    79%

    9 And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain.

    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.

    11 Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

    12 And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 19:14-18
    5 verses
    76%

    14 Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

    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.

    16 Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

    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.

    18 Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.

  • Exod 20:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15 Do not take the property of another.

    16 Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

    17 Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.

  • Lev 25:14
    75%

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

  • Deut 5:19-21
    3 verses
    75%

    19 Do not take the property of another.

    20 Do not give false witness against your neighbour;

    21 Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.

  • Lev 25:17
    74%

    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.

  • Exod 22:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    26 If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down:

  • Deut 24:17
    73%

    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 19:14
    73%

    14 Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Lev 25:37
    73%

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

  • Prov 3:28
    72%

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

  • Exod 23:6
    72%

    6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

  • Exod 20:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 On six days do all your work:

    10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

  • Exod 22:15
    72%

    15 If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.

  • Lev 19:35
    72%

    35 Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

  • Jer 22:13
    72%

    13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

  • Deut 23:15
    71%

    15 Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:

  • Lev 19:33
    71%

    33 And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;

  • Exod 22:11
    71%

    11 If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it.

  • Lev 18:20
    70%

    20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

  • Deut 5:13
    70%

    13 On six days do all your work:

  • Jas 5:4
    70%

    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.

  • Ezek 18:7
    70%

    7 And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

  • Prov 22:27
    70%

    27 If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

  • Exod 34:21
    69%

    21 Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

  • 1 Tim 5:18
    69%

    18 For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.

  • Exod 20:7
    69%

    7 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

  • Prov 24:28
    69%

    28 Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.

  • Ezek 18:16
    69%

    16 Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

  • Exod 22:21
    69%

    21 Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.

  • Deut 23:19
    69%

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