Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
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Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
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Jeremiah 22:14
who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself, with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.
Jeremiah 22:15
“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
Jeremiah 22:18
Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They won’t lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They won’t lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’
Jeremiah 22:3
Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
2 Samuel 7:2
the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
1 Chronicles 14:1
Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
Jeremiah 22:1
Yahweh said, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there:
Jeremiah 22:30
Yahweh says, “Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more will a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on David’s throne and ruling in Judah.”
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James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
Leviticus 19:13
“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Deuteronomy 24:14
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
Deuteronomy 24:15
In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it, for he is poor and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
Job 24:10
so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
Job 24:11
They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
Job 31:38
If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
Job 31:39
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
Luke 3:14
Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”
James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
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Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
Habakkuk 2:10
You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Micah 3:10
who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Isaiah 5:8
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
Isaiah 10:1
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees
Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
Job 20:18
He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
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Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.
Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 13:23
An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
Proverbs 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
Ezekiel 22:13
“ ‘ “Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been shed within you.
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2 Kings 23:35
Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.
2 Kings 23:36
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
2 Kings 23:37
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.
Ezekiel 19:5
“ ‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
Ezekiel 19:6
He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
Ezekiel 19:7
He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.
Jeremiah 26:20
There was also a man who prophesied in Yahweh’s name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 26:21
When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.
Jeremiah 26:22
Then Jehoiakim the king sent Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him into Egypt.
Jeremiah 26:23
They fetched Uriah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Jeremiah 36:31
I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.” ’ ”
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Luke 12:18
He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
Genesis 11:4
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
Proverbs 19:21
There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.
James 4:13
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
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Jeremiah 25:14
For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”
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Jeremiah 22:10
Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country.
Jeremiah 22:11
For Yahweh says touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t return there any more.
Jeremiah 22:12
But he will die in the place where they have led him captive. He will see this land no more.”
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Jeremiah 30:8
It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;
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Deuteronomy 25:13
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Proverbs 20:10
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Proverbs 20:14
“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Hosea 12:7
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Micah 6:11
Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful weights?
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Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
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Exodus 22:21
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
Exodus 22:23
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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Proverbs 3:27
Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
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Proverbs 3:28
Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.
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Amos 9:6
It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth—Yahweh is his name.
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