Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
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Genesis 14:20
And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.
Psalms 9:2
I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.
Psalms 46:4
There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
Psalms 56:2
My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
Psalms 83:18
So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.
Psalms 91:1
Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;
Isaiah 10:5
Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
Daniel 4:34
And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation.
Acts 4:27
For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,
Acts 4:28
To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
Acts 12:24
But the word of the Lord went on increasing.
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Genesis 20:13
And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.
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Genesis 31:12
And he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and marked and coloured: for I have seen what Laban has done to you.
Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.
Exodus 1:11
So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 1:13
And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:
Exodus 1:14
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
Exodus 1:22
And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.
Exodus 2:23
Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.
Leviticus 19:13
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Deuteronomy 24:15
Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
Acts 7:34
Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.
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Genesis 39:23
And the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything which was under his care, because the Lord was with him; and the Lord made everything he did go well.
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Exodus 2:24
And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Exodus 5:19
Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.
Exodus 22:22
Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
Exodus 22:23
If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;
Exodus 22:24
And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.
Judges 10:16
So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.
Psalms 74:21
O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.
Psalms 74:22
Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.
Psalms 79:10
Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.
Psalms 79:11
Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;
Psalms 146:7
Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;
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Exodus 14:5
And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us?
Exodus 14:6
So he had his war-carriage made ready and took his people with him:
Exodus 14:7
And he took six hundred carriages, all the carriages of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
Exodus 14:8
And the Lord made the heart of Pharaoh hard, and he went after the children of Israel: for the children of Israel had gone out without fear.
Exodus 14:9
But the Egyptians went after them, all the horses and carriages of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them in their tents by the sea, by Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
Exodus 14:28
And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not one of them was to be seen.
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.
2 Kings 14:10
It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
2 Kings 14:11
But Amaziah gave no attention. So Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.
2 Kings 14:12
And Judah was overcome before Israel, so that they went in flight, every man to his tent.
2 Kings 25:7
And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
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Exodus 18:21
But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
Leviticus 19:10
And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 1:17
In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.
2 Chronicles 19:7
So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.
Psalms 41:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.
Psalms 82:2
How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
Psalms 82:3
Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.
Psalms 82:4
Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.
Proverbs 29:7
The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.
James 2:7
Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?
James 2:8
But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:
James 2:9
But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
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Deuteronomy 32:35
Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.
Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.
Psalms 94:1
O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.
Proverbs 25:21
If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:
Proverbs 25:22
For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward.
Isaiah 1:24
For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;
Romans 1:18
For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;
Romans 12:19
Do not give punishment for wrongs done to you, dear brothers, but give way to the wrath of God; for it is said in the holy Writings, Punishment is mine, I will give reward, says the Lord.
Ephesians 5:6
Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.
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1 Samuel 22:12
And Saul said, Give ear now, O son of Ahitub. And answering he said, Here I am, my lord.
Psalms 49:7
Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;
Psalms 52:1
To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
Psalms 52:7
See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
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1 Samuel 24:13
There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
Esther 7:6
And Esther said, Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman. Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.
Psalms 37:13
He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.
Psalms 119:161
SHIN Rulers have been cruel to me without cause; but I have the fear of your word in my heart.
Psalms 139:19
If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.
Psalms 139:20
For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.
Psalms 139:21
Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?
Psalms 139:22
My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
Proverbs 24:24
He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.
Proverbs 24:25
But those who say sharp words to him will have delight, and a blessing of good will come on them.
1 Corinthians 5:13
As for those who are outside, God is their judge. So put away the evil man from among you.
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1 Kings 9:20
As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel;
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1 Kings 9:21
Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.
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2 Samuel 11:14
Now in the morning, David gave Uriah a letter to take to Joab.
2 Samuel 11:15
And in the letter he said, Take care to put Uriah in the very front of the line, where the fighting is most violent, and go back from him, so that he may be overcome and put to death.
2 Samuel 11:17
And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.
2 Samuel 11:18
Then Joab sent David news of everything which had taken place in the war:
2 Samuel 11:19
And he gave orders to the man who took the news, saying, After you have given the king all the news about the war,
2 Samuel 11:20
If the king is angry and says, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall?
2 Samuel 11:21
Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead.
2 Samuel 11:22
So the man went, and came to David, and gave him all the news which Joab had sent him to give; then David was angry with Joab and said, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall?
2 Samuel 11:23
And the man said to David, Truly the men got the better of us, and came out against us into the open country, but we sent them back to the very doors of the town.
2 Samuel 11:24
And the archers sent their arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's servants are dead, and among them is your servant Uriah the Hittite.
1 Kings 21:14
And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.
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Job 17:8
The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.
Psalms 37:1
Of David. Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.
Psalms 73:12
Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.
Psalms 73:13
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;
Psalms 73:14
For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.
Psalms 73:15
If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.
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Job 26:11
The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
Isaiah 13:8
Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.
Jeremiah 4:9
And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, and the hearts of the rulers; and the priests will be overcome with fear, and the prophets with wonder.
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Job 21:22
Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.
Job 34:17
How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?
Job 34:18
He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;
Isaiah 40:22
It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.
Isaiah 40:23
He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.
1 Corinthians 6:3
Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;
Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.
Revelation 20:1
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the great deep and a great chain in his hand.
Revelation 20:2
And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years,
Revelation 20:3
And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.
Revelation 20:12
And I saw the dead, great and small, taking their places before the high seat; and the books were open, and another book was open, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by the things which were in the books, even by their works.
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Job 34:26
The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.
Job 34:27
Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,
Ecclesiastes 4:14
Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.
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Psalms 10:2
The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
Micah 6:12
For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
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Job 24:23
He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.
Job 33:27
He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.
Psalms 10:13
Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
Proverbs 25:23
As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.
John 16:1
I have said these things to you so that you may not be in doubt.
1 Peter 4:12
Dear brothers, do not be surprised, as if it was something strange, if your faith is tested as by fire:
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Job 10:7
Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?
Job 11:11
For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.
Job 22:13
And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?
Job 22:14
Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.
Psalms 10:11
He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
Psalms 33:13
The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men;
Psalms 35:22
You have seen this, O Lord; be not unmoved: O Lord, be not far from me.
Psalms 44:21
Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.
Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
Jeremiah 17:10
I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
Revelation 2:18
And to the angel of the church in Thyatira say: These things says the Son of God, whose eyes are like a flame of fire, and his feet like polished brass:
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Psalms 34:7
The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.
Psalms 91:11
For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go.
Daniel 10:13
But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help; and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia.
Acts 12:7
And a great light was seen shining in the room, and an angel of the Lord came to Peter and, touching him on his side so that he came out of his sleep, said, Get up quickly. And his chains came off his hands.
Acts 12:8
Then the angel said, Put on your shoes and get ready to go. And he did so. And he said, Put your coat round you and come with me.
Acts 12:9
And he went out after him; and he was not certain if what was done by the angel was a fact, for it seemed to him that he was seeing a vision.
Acts 12:10
And when they had gone past the first and second watchmen they came to the iron door into the town, which came open by itself: and they went out and down one street; and then the angel went away.
Acts 12:11
And when Peter came to his senses he said, Now, truly, I am certain that the Lord has sent his angel and taken me out of the hands of Herod, against all the hopes of the Jews.
Hebrews 1:14
Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?
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2 Kings 7:6
For the Lord had made the sound of carriages and horses, and the noise of a great army, come to the ears of the Aramaeans, so that they said to one another, Truly, the king of Israel has got the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians for a price to make an attack on us.
Psalms 48:5
They saw it, and so were full of wonder; they were troubled, and went quickly away in fear.
Psalms 76:12
He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.
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Psalms 102:26
They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:
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Psalms 102:27
But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.
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Psalms 119:121
AIN I have done what is good and right: you will not give me into the hands of those who are working against me.
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1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.
Psalms 7:9
O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.
Psalms 10:12
Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.
Psalms 11:4
The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
Psalms 11:5
The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.
Psalms 17:3
You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.
Psalms 139:3
You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Jeremiah 32:19
Great in wisdom and strong in act: whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone the reward of his ways and the fruit of his doings:
Hosea 7:2
And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.
Amos 4:13
For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of armies, is his name.
Amos 9:2
Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:
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Psalms 146:8
The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Isaiah 10:2
Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
Isaiah 19:20
And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a saviour and a strong one to make them free.
Ezekiel 18:12
Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,
Ezekiel 18:13
And has given out his money at interest and taken great profits: he will certainly not go on living: he has done all these disgusting things: death will certainly be his fate; his blood will be on him.
Ezekiel 18:18
As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.
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Psalms 55:9
Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
Psalms 82:7
But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth.
Proverbs 8:17
Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.
Proverbs 22:2
The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.
Ecclesiastes 8:2
I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.
Ecclesiastes 8:6
For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
Amos 4:7
And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.
Luke 19:8
And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.
John 19:13
So when these words came to Pilate's ear, he took Jesus out, seating himself in the judge's seat in a place named in Hebrew, Gabbatha, or the Stone Floor.
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
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Ecclesiastes 5:4
When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.
Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
Ecclesiastes 5:6
Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.
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Ecclesiastes 5:19
Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.
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Ecclesiastes 6:2
A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
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Psalms 58:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
Psalms 58:2
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
Psalms 94:21
They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
Ecclesiastes 8:10
And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.
Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
Isaiah 3:13
The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.
James 2:1
My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
James 2:2
For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,
James 2:3
And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;
James 2:4
Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
James 2:5
Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?
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1 Samuel 8:11
And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;
1 Samuel 8:12
And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.
1 Samuel 8:13
Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.
1 Samuel 8:14
He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:15
He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:16
He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.
1 Samuel 8:17
He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.
1 Samuel 8:18
Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.
1 Kings 4:7
And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.
1 Kings 4:22
And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
Job 20:22
Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
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Jeremiah 23:1
A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 50:33
This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.
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Jeremiah 50:34
Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.
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Lamentations 3:35
In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.
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Lamentations 3:36
In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.
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Ezekiel 45:8
And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes.
Amos 4:2
The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.
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Job 12:19
He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;
Job 12:21
He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;
Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,
Psalms 2:3
Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.
Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.
Isaiah 10:7
But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.
Isaiah 10:12
For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.
Isaiah 10:34
And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.
Isaiah 46:10
Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
Daniel 4:35
And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
Habakkuk 1:12
Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.
Acts 12:22
And the people, with loud cries, said, It is the voice of a god, not of a man.
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1 Chronicles 21:15
And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret for the evil, and said to the angel of destruction, It is enough; do no more. Now the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:16
And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.
Job 34:11
For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.
Psalms 27:2
When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.
Ezekiel 7:27
The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler will be clothed with wonder, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will give them punishment for their ways, judging them as it is right for them to be judged; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
Amos 6:3
You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;
Matthew 13:41
The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,
Matthew 13:42
And will put them into the fire; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
Romans 2:16
In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 4:5
For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:
2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;
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1 Samuel 19:11
Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.
Psalms 10:8
He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
Psalms 10:10
The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.
Amos 2:8
By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
Amos 8:4
Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
Amos 8:6
Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
Amos 8:7
The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works.
Micah 2:2
They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.
Micah 6:6
With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?
Micah 6:11
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
Habakkuk 3:14
You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.
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Habakkuk 1:2
How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.
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Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.
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Luke 1:32
He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father:
Luke 1:35
And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.
Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;
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Matthew 22:8
Then he said to his servants, The feast is ready but the guests were not good enough.
Matthew 22:10
And those servants went out into the streets, and got together all those whom they came across, bad and good: and the feast was full of guests.
Matthew 24:48
But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;
Matthew 24:51
And will have him cut in two, and will give him a part in the fate of the false ones: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
Luke 12:45
But if that servant says to himself, My lord is a long time coming; and goes about giving blows to the men-servants and the women-servants, feasting and taking overmuch wine;
Luke 12:46
The lord of that servant will come at a time when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not ready for him, and he will have him cut in two and will give him his part in the fate of those who have no faith;
John 13:13
You give me the name of Master and Lord: and you are right; that is what I am.
1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.
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John 3:7
Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.
Acts 3:12
And when Peter saw it he said to the people, You men of Israel, why are you so greatly surprised at this man? or why are you looking at us as if by our power or virtue we had given him the use of his legs?
Acts 4:10
Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.
Acts 4:11
He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building.
Acts 4:12
And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.
Acts 5:30
The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree.
Acts 5:31
Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.
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Psalms 92:1
A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath. It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High;
Isaiah 46:11
Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.
Habakkuk 1:7
They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.
Acts 12:1
Now, about that time, Herod the king made cruel attacks on the Christians.
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Malachi 1:12
But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
Malachi 1:13
And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.
Mark 14:4
But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?
1 Corinthians 10:21
It is not possible for you, at the same time, to take the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits; you may not take part in the table of the Lord and the table of evil spirits.
Hebrews 13:10
We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.
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Exodus 15:11
Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?
Psalms 8:1
To the chief music-maker on the Gittith. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!
Psalms 95:3
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.
Psalms 109:31
For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.
Psalms 113:5
Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,
Psalms 113:6
Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?
Isaiah 54:17
No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.
Matthew 25:45
Then will he make answer to them, saying, Truly I say to you, Because you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.
Matthew 25:46
And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.
James 2:13
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.
Revelation 20:14
And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire.
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Zechariah 8:6
This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies.
Matthew 25:41
Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:
Matthew 25:42
For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me:
Matthew 25:43
I was wandering, and you took me not in; without clothing, and you gave me no clothing; ill, and in prison, and you came not to me.
Matthew 25:44
Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you?
Romans 14:12
So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.
1 John 3:17
But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
Revelation 20:13
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man by his works.
Revelation 20:15
And if anyone's name was not in the book of life, he went down into the sea of fire.
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