Deu 15:9, Pro 21:13, Mat 18:30, Jam 2:15-16, 1Jo 3:16-17 | ESV | STEP | Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say , The seventh year , the year of release is near , and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother , and you give him nothing , and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin .

Deuteronomy 15:9

9 Take 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.

Proverbs 21:13

13 ^eWhoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
will himself call out and not be answered.

Matthew 18:30

30 He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt.

James 2:15-16

15 ^fIf a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 ^gand one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good ^{▼▼Or benefit} is that?

1 John 3:16-17

16 By this we know love, that ⁱhe laid down his life for us, and ^jwe ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But ^kif anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet ^lcloses his heart against him, ^mhow does God’s love abide in him?