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

Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.

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.

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?

Thine eye

The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

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

A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.

The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.

Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!

Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

He cry

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.

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.

If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.

For the one who takes revenge against murderers took notice of the oppressed; he did not overlook their cry for help

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and will not be answered.

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 hosts.

Sin unto thee

"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!

So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.

Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

General references

And if you lend to those from whom you hope to be repaid, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so that they may be repaid in full.