Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked 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 the LORD against you, and it be sin to you. Treasury of Scripture Beware Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: Matthew 7:21,22 Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven... Romans 7:8,9 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead... James 4:5 Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy? thought, etc. [heb] word with thine heart of Belial
thine eye Deuteronomy 28:54-56 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom... Proverbs 23:6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats: Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. Proverbs 28:22 He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that poverty shall come on him. Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil, because I am good? James 5:9 Grudge not one against another, brothers, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door. 1 Peter 4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging. he cry Deuteronomy 24:15 At 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... Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt... Exodus 22:23 If you afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; Job 34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted. Psalm 9:12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble. Proverbs 21:13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries... sin unto thee Matthew 25:41-45 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire... James 4:17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin. 1 John 3:15-17 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him...
Context Generosity in Lending and Giving
7If there be among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother: 8But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wants. 9Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked 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 the LORD against you, and it be sin to you. 10You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him: because that for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to. 11For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.
Darby Bible Translation
Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy 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 against thee to Jehovah, and it be sin in thee.
King James Bible
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.
Young's Literal Translation
Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart -- worthless, saying, Near is the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin;
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