Verse 9

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.

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.