sSee Matt. 6:23 (Gk.)
Deuteronomy 15:9
9Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your aeye look grudgingly ▼▼Or be evil; also verse 10
on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he ccry to the Lord against you, and dyou be guilty of sin. Deuteronomy 28:54
54The man who is the most tender and refined among you will ebegrudge food to his brother, to fthe wife he embraces, ▼▼Hebrew the wife of his bosom
and to the last of the children whom he has left, Proverbs 23:6
6 hDo not eat the bread of a man who is istingy; ▼▼Hebrew whose eye is evil
kdo not desire his delicacies,
Proverbs 28:22
22A lstingy man ▼▼Hebrew A man whose eye is evil
nhastens after wealthand does not know that opoverty will come upon him.
Matthew 6:23
23 pbut if qyour eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!Mark 7:22
22coveting, wickedness, deceit, rsensuality, senvy, tslander, upride, vfoolishness.James 5:9
9Do not grumble against one another, brothers, wso that you may not be judged; behold, xthe Judge is standing yat the door.
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