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. 2 Kings 5:15-16
Gehazi’s Greed and Punishment
15Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, “Behold, I know that ethere is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so faccept now a present from your servant.” 16But he said, g“As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, hI will receive none.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.Proverbs 15:26
26 iThe thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord,but jgracious words are pure.
Matthew 15:19
19For out of the heart come kevil thoughts, lmurder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, mslander.Acts 8:22
22Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, nif possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
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