Leviticus 25:17
Do not afflict your countrymen, but let every one fear his God: because I am the Lord your God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 20:11Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:
Genesis 39:9But he, in no wise consenting to that wicked act, said to her: Behold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what he hath in his own house:
Exodus 20:20And Moses said to the people: Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that the dread of him might be in you, and you should not sin.
Leviticus 19:14Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord.
Leviticus 25:14When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of him; grieve not thy brother: but thou shalt buy of him according to the number of years from the jubilee.
Leviticus 25:43Afflict him not by might, but fear thy God.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:9-23
Institution of the Jubilee; the Year of the Jubilee. ( b. c. 1490.) 8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the… Read the whole commentary →