Deuteronomy 15:9
Deuteronomy chapter 15 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Beware 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Beware 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Beware 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.
Context
v.8but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.
v.9This passage
v.10Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
- Exodus 3:7
And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
- Proverbs 23:6
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:
- Deuteronomy 28:54
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, and toward the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining;
- Romans 7:8
but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.
- Deuteronomy 15:1
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.