Deuteronomy 15:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Beware

Thine eye

1 Peter 4:9

He cry

James 5:4

Sin unto thee

Matthew 25:41

James 4:17

1 John 3:15

General references

Luke 6:34

Bible References

Beware

Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.

I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;

For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead.

Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

Thine eye

The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother, and the wife of his bosom, and the residue of his children which he hath left;

Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.

The purpose of folly is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to men.

He that hath an evil eye hasteth after wealth, and knoweth not that poverty shall come upon him.

is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

hospitable one to another, without murmuring;

He cry

on his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul yearneth after it; lest he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be a sin in thee.

And Jehovah said, I have seen assuredly the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and their cry have I heard on account of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows.

If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry;

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them; the cry of the afflicted ones hath he not forgotten.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also himself shall cry, and shall not be heard.

Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Sin unto thee

Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Every one that hates his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

General references

And if ye lend to those from whom ye hope to receive, what thank is it to you? for even sinners lend to sinners that they may receive the like.