Proverbs 22:7

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

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Genesis 46:6
They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his offspring with him,

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Exodus 22:25
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

Deuteronomy 23:19
You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.

Deuteronomy 23:20
You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not charge your brother interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

Nehemiah 5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

Proverbs 6:3
Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

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.

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2 Kings 4:2
Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”

2 Kings 4:4
Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”

2 Kings 4:5
So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.

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Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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Proverbs 22:4
The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

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Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Proverbs 24:34
so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

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Psalms 37:26
All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

Psalms 112:5
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

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.

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Romans 13:6
For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.

Romans 13:7
Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Romans 13:8
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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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.

Proverbs 6:11
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 18:23
The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

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

Proverbs 28:3
A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

Amos 2:6
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;

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!”

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.

Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

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?’ ”

Matthew 18:25
But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

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

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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