Deuteronomy 15:9

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

⁸ but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks. ⁹ Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the Lord against you, and it will be a sin in you. ¹⁰ You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings.

Be Careful

Cry Out to the Lord

Seventh Year

Take Heed

To the Lord

Year of Release

Belial

Jehovah

No

Sin

Deuteronomy 24:15

You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that he will not cry against you to the Lord and it become sin in you.

Matthew 20:15

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’

Exodus 22:23

If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;

Job 34:28

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him,
And that He might hear the cry of the afflicted—

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a selfish man,
Or desire his delicacies;

Proverbs 28:22

A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth
And does not know that want will come upon him.

James 5:4

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Exodus 3:7

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.

Deuteronomy 15:1

“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a remission of debts.

Deuteronomy 28:54-56

The man who is refined and very delicate among you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,

Psalm 9:12

For He who requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Proverbs 4:23

Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 21:13

He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor
Will also cry himself and not be answered.

Proverbs 24:9

The devising of folly is sin,
And the scoffer is an abomination to men.

Jeremiah 17:10

“I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

Matthew 25:41-45

“Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;

Mark 7:21-22

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

Romans 7:8-9

But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.

James 4:5

Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?

James 4:17

Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

James 5:9

Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.

1 Peter 4:9

Be hospitable to one another without complaint.

1 John 3:15-17

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.