Proverbs 22:16

Proverbs 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

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Exodus 23:9
“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Job 20:19
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

Psalms 10:8
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

Psalms 10:9
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Psalms 35:10
All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Proverbs 3:31
Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

Isaiah 32:7
The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

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.

Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

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.

James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

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Job 31:13
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

Job 31:14
what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

Job 31:15
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

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Proverbs 15:22
Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

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Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Proverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

Proverbs 29:7
The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

James 2:1
My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality.

James 2:2
For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,

James 2:3
and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

James 2:4
haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

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Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

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Luke 6:33
If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Luke 6:34
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Luke 14:14
and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

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