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 diligence for out of it come the source of life.

I, Jehovah, search the heart and examine the mind (inner man). I give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.

Evil thoughts come from the heart! Thoughts about murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander come from the heart!

It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

But sin, finding occasion, worked out in me through the commandment all manner of coveting. Apart from the law sin is dead.

Or do you think the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the attitude of the heart (mental disposition) that he induced to live in us cause us to envy?

Thine eye

The kindest and most sensitive man among you will become stingy toward his brother, the wife he loves, and the children he still has left.

Do not eat the bread of a selfish man nor desire his delicacies.

The thought of foolishness is sin. The mocker is an abomination to men.

He who hurries to be rich has an evil eye. He does not think poverty will come to him.

Is it lawful for me to do what I wish with what is mine? Or is your eye jealous because I am generous?'

Do not complain (utter a deep sigh) against one another, that you not be judged. Behold, the judge is standing at the door.

Be hospitable to one another without complaining.

He cry

Pay him his wages on the workday day before the sunsets. He is poor and sets his heart on it. He will not complain against you to Jehovah and it becomes your sin.

Jehovah said: I have seen how my people are suffering as slaves in Egypt. I have heard them beg for my help because of the way they are being mistreated. I feel sorry for them.

If you do, I, Jehovah, will answer them when they cry out to me for help,

They forced the poor to cry out to him, and he hears the cry of those who suffer.

God remembers those who suffer. He does not forget their cry, and he punishes those who wrong them.

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he also will cry, but will not be heard.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.

Sin unto thee

Then he will tell those on his left: 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the ever-burning fire that is prepared for the Devil and his [fallen] angels.

He that knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer! You know that no murderer has everlasting life remaining in him.

General references

If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive what thanks do you have? Even sinners lend to sinners to receive again as much.