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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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

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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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

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