Deuteronomy 15:9

World English Bible (2000)

Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

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  • Deut 24:15 : 15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
  • Prov 23:6 : 6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
  • Exod 22:23 : 23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
  • Job 34:28 : 28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
  • Jas 5:9 : 9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
  • 1 John 3:15-17 : 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
  • Deut 15:1 : 1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
  • Deut 28:54-56 : 54 The man who 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 has remaining; 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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, Yahweh, 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, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
  • Prov 24:9 : 9 The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
  • Matt 25:41-45 : 41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; 42 for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; 43 I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.' 44 "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?' 45 "Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you didn't do it to me.'
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
  • Rom 7:8-9 : 8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 15:10-14
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    83%

    10You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

    11For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

    12If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

    13When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

    14you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

  • Deut 15:7-8
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    7If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

    8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.

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

    2This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.

    3Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.

    4However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)

  • Deut 24:14-15
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    14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

    15in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

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

  • Exod 22:25
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    25"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

  • Exod 23:10-11
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    10"For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

    11but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

  • Jer 34:14
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    14At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.

  • Lev 25:35-37
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    35"'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

    36Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

    37You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

  • Lev 25:39
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    39"'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Prov 22:9
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    9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

  • Deut 24:12
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    12If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

  • Deut 14:27
    72%

    27The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

  • Deut 24:10
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    10When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

  • Lev 19:9-10
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    72%

    9"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

    10You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 25:14
    72%

    14"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

  • Prov 23:6
    72%

    6Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:

  • Lev 19:15
    72%

    15"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

  • Deut 23:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:

    20to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

  • Deut 24:19
    72%

    19When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

  • Prov 19:17
    71%

    17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

  • Prov 28:27
    71%

    27One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

  • Prov 3:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

    28Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.

  • Lev 25:20
    71%

    20If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"

  • Deut 22:1
    71%

    1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.

  • Lev 19:17
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    17"'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

  • Lev 25:4
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    4but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

  • Deut 15:18
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    18It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Deut 14:29
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    29and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

  • Deut 19:19
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    19then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • Lev 25:17
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    17You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

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

  • Prov 24:18
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    18lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.