Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your (A)eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and (B)he cry out to the Lord against you, and (C)it become sin among you.

Read full chapter

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)

Read full chapter

Do not eat the bread of (A)a[a] miser,
Nor desire his delicacies;

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:6 Lit. one who has an evil eye

Saying 9

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

Read full chapter

23 But if your eye is [a]bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:23 Evil, or unhealthy

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!

Read full chapter

Footnotes

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

22 thefts, (A)covetousness, wickedness, (B)deceit, (C)lewdness, an evil eye, (D)blasphemy, (E)pride, foolishness.

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter