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,
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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,
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Exodus 5:14
And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?
Deuteronomy 5:19
Do not take the property of another.
Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
Isaiah 10:1
Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
Isaiah 58:4
If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
Micah 3:1
And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?
Micah 3:9
Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.
Micah 3:10
They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.
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?
Matthew 21:13
And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.
Romans 13:7
Give to all what is their right: taxes to him whose they are, payment to him whose right it is, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour is to be given.
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Leviticus 19:30
Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:13
But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.
Ezekiel 20:21
But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.
Ezekiel 20:24
Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.
Ezekiel 22:8
You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.
Ezekiel 23:38
Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.
Ezekiel 23:39
For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.
Malachi 1:6
A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
Malachi 1:7
You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.
Malachi 1:8
And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 1:12
But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
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Leviticus 19:36
Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 25:13
Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
Deuteronomy 25:14
Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.
Deuteronomy 25:15
But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Proverbs 20:23
Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
Ezekiel 45:9
This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 45:10
Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.
Hosea 12:7
As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.
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Leviticus 25:39
And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;
Nehemiah 5:1
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.
Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.
Nehemiah 5:3
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
Nehemiah 5:4
And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.
Nehemiah 5:5
But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
Nehemiah 5:8
And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.
Proverbs 22:7
The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.
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Leviticus 25:43
Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
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.
Job 24:10
Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.
Job 24:11
Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.
Job 31:13
If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;
Job 31:14
What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?
Job 31:15
Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Micah 2:8
As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war.
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.
Luke 10:7
And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.
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Numbers 5:22
And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.
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Deuteronomy 15:7
If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him;
Deuteronomy 15:8
But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of.
Deuteronomy 15:9
And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.
Deuteronomy 15:10
But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.
Deuteronomy 15:11
For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.
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1 Kings 22:19
And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with all the army of heaven in their places round him at his right hand and at his left.
Isaiah 1:10
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah 28:14
Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem:
Jeremiah 5:21
Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
Jeremiah 28:15
Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Give ear, now, Hananiah; the Lord has not sent you; but you are making this people put their faith in what is false.
Amos 7:16
Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.
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2 Kings 14:23
In the fifteenth year of the rule of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, ruling for forty-one years.
2 Kings 15:23
In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah, the son of Menahem, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for two years.
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Job 5:5
Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
Job 20:5
That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?
Job 20:15
He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
Job 20:18
He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
Job 20:19
Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
Hosea 8:7
For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
Hosea 8:8
Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.
Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.
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Job 24:5
Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.
Job 24:6
They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.
Job 24:14
He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
Psalms 10:9
He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
Psalms 10:10
The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
Proverbs 4:17
The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
Proverbs 9:17
Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.
Habakkuk 2:9
A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!
Habakkuk 2:10
You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.
Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
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Psalms 56:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath. Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.
Psalms 56:2
My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.
Isaiah 42:14
I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
Ezekiel 36:3
For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:
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Proverbs 1:13
Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
Micah 1:12
For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.
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Psalms 10:14
You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
Psalms 72:4
May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
Psalms 72:12
For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.
Psalms 72:13
He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.
Proverbs 21:13
He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.
Proverbs 28:8
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
Isaiah 5:23
Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
Isaiah 11:4
But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
Isaiah 32:6
For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.
Isaiah 33:15
He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
1 Thessalonians 4:6
And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.
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Proverbs 24:16
For an upright man, after falling seven times, will get up again: but trouble is the downfall of the evil.
Amos 8:14
Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.
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Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
Jeremiah 7:6
If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
Jeremiah 7:8
See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
Galatians 5:15
But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.
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Job 5:12
Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.
Job 36:5
Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.
Job 36:6
His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;
Psalms 10:2
The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
Psalms 140:12
I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.
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.
Ezekiel 16:49
Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.
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.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
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.
Micah 2:3
For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.
Matthew 19:27
Then Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything and have come after you; what then will we have?
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Psalms 109:16
Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.
Proverbs 18:23
The poor man makes requests for grace, but the man of wealth gives a rough answer.
Proverbs 29:14
The king who is a true judge in the cause of the poor, will be safe for ever on the seat of his power.
Ecclesiastes 5:9
It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
Isaiah 5:22
Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
Isaiah 29:21
Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.
Jeremiah 5:29
Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
Amos 5:10
They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.
Zephaniah 2:3
Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.
Zechariah 7:10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
Matthew 5:3
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
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Psalms 53:4
Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.
Jeremiah 7:7
Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.
Jeremiah 10:25
Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.
Ezekiel 22:25
Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.
Ezekiel 22:28
And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.
Ezekiel 34:3
You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.
Zechariah 11:4
This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;
Zechariah 11:5
Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.
Mark 12:40
Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.
Luke 20:47
Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.
Romans 2:21
You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?
2 Timothy 3:6
For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,
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Luke 16:20
And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
Luke 16:21
Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.
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1 Peter 2:23
To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness:
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