Deuteronomy 15:9

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Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 24:15 : 15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
  • Prov 23:6 : 6 Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.
  • Exod 22:23 : 23 If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,
  • Job 34:28 : 28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Jas 5:9 : 9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
  • 1 John 3:15-17 : 15 Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. 16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians. 17 But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 The LORD said,“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 For the one who takes revenge against murderers took notice of the oppressed; he did not overlook their cry for help
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and will not be answered.
  • Deut 15:1 : 1 Release for Debt Slaves At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.
  • Deut 28:54-56 : 54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children. 55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating(since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages. 56 Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, the LORD, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
  • Prov 24:9 : 9 A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.
  • Matt 25:41-45 : 41 “Then he will say to those on his left,‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels! 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink. 43 I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they too will answer,‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not give you whatever you needed?’ 45 Then he will answer them,‘I tell you the truth, just as you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.’
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.
  • Rom 7:8-9 : 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 15:10-14
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    10You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.

    11There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open your hand to your fellow Israelites who are needy and poor in your land.

    12Release of Debt Slaves If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.

    13If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

    14You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

  • Deut 15:7-8
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    7The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.

    8Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.

  • Deut 15:1-4
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    1Release for Debt Slaves At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.

    2This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as“the LORD’s cancellation of debts.”

    3You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.

    4However, there should not be any poor among you, for the LORD will surely bless you in the land that he is giving you as an inheritance,

  • Deut 24:14-15
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    14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

    15You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

  • Zech 7:10
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    10You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the resident foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow citizen.’

  • Exod 22:25
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    25“If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.

  • Exod 23:10-11
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    10Sabbaths and Feasts“For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.

    11But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

  • Jer 34:14
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    14“Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.” But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.

  • Lev 25:35-37
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    35Debt and Slave Regulations“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.

    36Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

    37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

  • Lev 25:39
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    39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Prov 22:9
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    9A generous person will be blessed, for he has given some of his food to the poor.

  • Deut 24:12
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    12If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

  • Deut 14:27
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    27As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

  • Deut 24:10
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    10When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

  • Lev 19:9-10
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    9Leaving the Gleanings“‘When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.

    10You must not pick your vineyard bare, and you must not gather up the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 25:14
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    14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

  • Prov 23:6
    72%

    6Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;

  • Lev 19:15
    72%

    15Justice, Love, and Propriety“‘You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.

  • Deut 23:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19Respect for Others’ Property You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite, whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest.

    20You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the LORD your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.

  • Deut 24:19
    72%

    19Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the LORD your God may bless all the work you do.

  • Prov 19:17
    71%

    17The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.

  • Prov 28:27
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    27The one who gives to the poor will not lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to them will receive many curses.

  • Prov 3:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27Wisdom Demonstrated in Relationships with People Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.

    28Do not say to your neighbor,“Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it,” when you have it with you at the time.

  • Lev 25:20
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    20If you say,‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

  • Deut 22:1
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    1Laws Concerning Preservation of Life When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.

  • Lev 19:17
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    17You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.

  • Lev 25:4
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    4but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest– a Sabbath to the LORD. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

  • Deut 15:18
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    18You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Deut 14:29
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    29Then the Levites(because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work you do.

  • Deut 19:19
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    19you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Lev 25:17
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    17No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the LORD your God.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.