Nehemiah 5:10
I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
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Nehemiah 5:10
I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
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Exodus 22:26
If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
Exodus 22:27
for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
Leviticus 25:17
You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
Proverbs 29:13
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
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Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.
Deuteronomy 32:36
For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
1 Kings 14:10
therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung until it is all gone.
Nehemiah 3:8
Next to him, Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, made repairs. Next to him, Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the wide wall.
Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
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Exodus 33:11
Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.
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2 Samuel 12:5
David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!
2 Samuel 12:6
He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity!”
2 Samuel 12:7
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
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Deuteronomy 15:2
This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother, because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.
2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
Isaiah 24:2
It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.
Jeremiah 34:8
The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,
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Nehemiah 2:9
Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
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Nehemiah 4:10
Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading and there is much rubble, so that we are not able to build the wall.”
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Nehemiah 4:16
From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
Nehemiah 4:23
So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.
Nehemiah 5:16
Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.
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Nehemiah 13:17
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?
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Job 5:15
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
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Job 5:16
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
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Job 22:5
Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
Job 22:6
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 22:7
You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Job 22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Job 31:34
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—
Psalms 72:12
For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
Psalms 82:5
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
Proverbs 24:12
If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
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.
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
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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?
Job 31:16
“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Job 31:18
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
Job 31:19
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Job 31:20
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
Job 31:22
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Job 31:23
For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
Isaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
Ezekiel 18:7
and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
Luke 19:8
Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
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Job 31:24
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
Job 31:25
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
Luke 3:12
Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”
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Psalms 44:12
You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
Revelation 18:13
and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.
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Psalms 140:12
I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
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Job 42:6
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
Jeremiah 31:18
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are Yahweh my God.
Jeremiah 31:19
Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
Daniel 6:14
Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.
Mark 3:5
When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vindication! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
Ephesians 4:26
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
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Jeremiah 34:14
At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you. But your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear.
Jeremiah 34:16
but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’ ”
Matthew 18:28
“But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
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2 Kings 4:7
Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
Matthew 25:27
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
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 19:23
Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’
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1 Corinthians 6:7
Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
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1 Corinthians 6:8
No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
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1 Corinthians 9:12
If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:13
Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
1 Corinthians 9:16
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
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2 Corinthians 5:11
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.
Philemon 1:8
Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,
Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
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Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
Amos 4:1
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
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 3:2
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 3:3
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
Micah 3:4
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
Zephaniah 3:2
She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.
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.
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