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.
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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.
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Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
Genesis 3:7
Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
Proverbs 9:17
“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
Proverbs 9:18
But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Proverbs 20:17
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
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Genesis 13:10
Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.
Genesis 13:12
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
Genesis 19:17
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
Ezekiel 16:49
“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
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Leviticus 25:17
You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
Numbers 20:15
how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.
1 Kings 21:19
You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?” ’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”
Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
Isaiah 51:23
I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
Ezekiel 45:9
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Enough you, princes of Israel! Remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness! Stop dispossessing my people!” says the Lord Yahweh.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Micah 6:11
Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful weights?
Habakkuk 3:14
You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
Zechariah 7:10
Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
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 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?
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1 Samuel 8:11
He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.
1 Samuel 8:12
He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest; and to make his instruments of war and the instruments of his chariots.
1 Samuel 8:13
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1 Samuel 8:14
He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even your best, and give them to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:15
He will take one tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:16
He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
1 Samuel 8:17
He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
1 Samuel 8:18
You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
1 Kings 4:7
Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Micah 2:3
Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.
1 Thessalonians 4:6
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
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1 Kings 4:22
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
1 Kings 12:4
“Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
Proverbs 3:31
Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
Ezekiel 45:8
In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”
Amos 4:2
The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, “Behold, the days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
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2 Kings 20:17
‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.
Job 5:5
whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
Job 20:10
His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.
Job 27:14
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
Job 27:15
Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.
Job 27:18
He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
Job 27:19
He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
Job 31:8
then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
Revelation 18:17
For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
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Job 4:7
“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 8:4
If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
Job 15:5
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 15:6
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
Job 21:27
“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
Job 21:28
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
Job 22:20
saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’
Matthew 27:3
Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Luke 13:1
Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
Luke 13:2
Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?
Luke 13:3
I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
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Job 22:24
Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
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Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Job 24:11
They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
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Job 22:6
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Job 24:5
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
Job 24:6
They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
Job 24:7
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Job 24:10
so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
Job 24:12
From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
Amos 2:8
They lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge. In the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
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Job 28:4
He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
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Job 34:26
He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
Job 34:27
because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,
Job 34:28
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
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Psalms 10:2
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
Amos 8:5
saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”
Micah 6:12
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
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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 10:10
The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
Psalms 10:14
But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
Psalms 10:17
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
Psalms 10:18
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
Proverbs 16:1
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
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Job 15:28
He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
Job 15:29
He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning won’t be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 28:22
A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.
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Job 30:3
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Job 30:4
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
Job 30:5
They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,
Job 30:6
so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.
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Psalms 37:16
Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.
Proverbs 10:22
Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
Proverbs 15:6
In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
Ecclesiastes 5:11
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
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Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.
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Genesis 21:25
Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
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.
Exodus 2:23
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Exodus 22:21
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 6:4
then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,
Leviticus 25:14
“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
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;
Ezekiel 18:12
has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
Ezekiel 18:18
As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.
Amos 3:10
“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
Zephaniah 1:9
In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
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Numbers 32:23
“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
Job 20:11
His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
Psalms 9:16
Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
Proverbs 5:22
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
Isaiah 26:16
Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
Jeremiah 2:19
“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Jeremiah 4:18
“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
Hosea 7:2
They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
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Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
Isaiah 28:15
“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
Isaiah 47:10
For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
Isaiah 59:4
No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Jeremiah 13:25
This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
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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,
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:17
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Proverbs 15:27
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
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;
Habakkuk 2:8
Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
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.
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Matthew 25:35
for I was hungry and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.
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Matthew 25:36
I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.’
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Mark 3:4
He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to kill?” But they were silent.
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Job 16:4
I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Psalms 78:30
They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
Psalms 78:31
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
Ezekiel 7:19
They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
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Luke 13:4
Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?
Luke 13:5
I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
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