Beware that there not be a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, approaches; and your eye be evil against your needy brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to Jehovah against you, and it become sin unto you.

Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his dainty foods;

He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and does not recognize that poverty will come upon him.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?

If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,

But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him.

Put no faith in a companion; put no trust in a friend; keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;

As a father has compassion on his children, so Jehovah has compassion on those who fear Him.

Can a woman forget her nursing infant, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Indeed, they may forget; yet I will not forget you.

Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

If a son asks for bread from any father among you, he will not give him a stone, will he? Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a serpent instead of a fish, will he?

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him.