Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart, ‘The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty.

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Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts,(A) is near,” so that you do not show ill will(B) toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.(C)

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Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,[a](A)
and don’t desire his choice food,(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:6 Lit eat bread of an evil eye

Saying 9

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
    do not crave his delicacies;(A)

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23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness—how deep is that darkness!(A)

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23 But if your eyes are unhealthy,[a] your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:23 The Greek for unhealthy here implies stingy.

22 adulteries,(A) greed,(B) evil actions, deceit,(C) promiscuity,(D) stinginess,[a] blasphemy,(E) pride,(F) and foolishness.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:22 Lit evil eye

22 adultery, greed,(A) malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.

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