Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin.
You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry,
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—
Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’
The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left, so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,
“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.
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