Facts about Neighbors

Facts about Neighbors

Eating crops of

Deuteronomy 23:25 If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing grain.

Smiting secretly 

Deuteronomy 27:24 

“Cursed is the man who kills his neighbor secretly.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”
Righteous treatment of

Psalms 15:1-3  

1 LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill?

2 He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart

3 and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman,

Private slander of  

Psalms 101:5 

Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, him will I put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, him will I not endure.

Deception of, forbidden

Proverbs 3:28 

Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back later; I'll give it tomorrow”— when you now have it with you.

Devise not against 

Proverbs 3:29 

Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you.

Despising 

Proverbs 11:12 

A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue.

Poor neighbors 

Proverbs 14:20 

The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.

Proverbs 19:4 

Wealth brings many friends, but a poor man's friend deserts him.