Proverbs 22:22

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

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Exodus 1:11
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1:13
The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

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 1:22
Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

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 2:24
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 3:8
I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Judges 10:16
They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Psalms 10:12
Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Psalms 74:21
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Isaiah 9:4
For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

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Leviticus 25:14
“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

1 Samuel 12:4
They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”

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Leviticus 25:35
“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

Deuteronomy 15:18
It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

Deuteronomy 23:16
He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.

Deuteronomy 24:19
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Psalms 146:9
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 20:10
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

Proverbs 23:6
Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,

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

Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!

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Exodus 23:6
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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.

Leviticus 19:33
“ ‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

Deuteronomy 10:19
Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.

Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

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!

Isaiah 29:21
who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

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.

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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Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides, for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

Psalms 94:1
Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Romans 12:19
Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

2 Thessalonians 1:8
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

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Ruth 3:11
Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

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1 Kings 8:45
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

1 Kings 8:49
then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;

Psalms 9:4
For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

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Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Job 31:38
If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

Job 35:9
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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

Proverbs 28:15
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

Ecclesiastes 3:16
Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

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.

Isaiah 10:1
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees

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;

Amos 8:7
Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.

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.

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Job 29:7
when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

Job 29:8
The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Job 29:10
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

Job 29:11
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,

Job 29:18
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.

Job 29:19
My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

Job 29:20
My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’

Job 29:21
“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

Job 29:22
After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.

Job 29:23
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

Job 29:24
I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

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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.

Job 5:16
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Psalms 34:6
This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

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 69:33
For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

Psalms 102:18
This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah,

Psalms 102:19
for he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth,

Psalms 102:20
to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death,

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Psalms 49:1
Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

Psalms 49:2
both low and high, rich and poor together.

Psalms 49:3
My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.

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Psalms 4:1
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Psalms 74:22
Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

Psalms 79:10
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

Psalms 79:11
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Psalms 103:6
Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

Psalms 145:19
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Isaiah 19:20
It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.

Ezekiel 18:13
has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor, shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

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.

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Proverbs 1:15
my son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:17
For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Proverbs 2:12
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

Proverbs 2:13
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

Proverbs 2:14
who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Proverbs 2:15
who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

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

Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

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Proverbs 10:15
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

Proverbs 14:20
The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

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

Proverbs 19:4
Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

Proverbs 19:7
All the relatives of the poor shun him; how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

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Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

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Proverbs 1:1
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

Proverbs 5:18
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Proverbs 9:12
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Proverbs 14:4
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Proverbs 19:25
Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

Proverbs 22:17
Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

Proverbs 24:22
for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both?

Proverbs 25:13
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

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Proverbs 24:30
I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.

Proverbs 24:31
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

Proverbs 24:32
Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

Proverbs 24:33
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

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

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Ecclesiastes 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

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.

James 5:12
But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

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Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

Acts 4:10
may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him.

Acts 4:11
He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’

Acts 4:12
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Acts 5:30
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

Acts 5:31
God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

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Isaiah 3:13
Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 7:15
I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.

Ezekiel 22:14
Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.

Hosea 4:2
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

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Deuteronomy 22:15
then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

Deuteronomy 25:7
If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

Joshua 20:4
He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

Judges 4:5
She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

Ruth 4:2
Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

Ruth 4:11
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

1 Kings 22:10
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

Proverbs 1:21
She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

Proverbs 31:23
Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 14:2
“Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

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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Jeremiah 50:33
Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go.

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Jeremiah 50:34
Their Redeemer is strong. Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

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Psalms 82:1
God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

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

Proverbs 28:16
A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

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

Proverbs 29:14
The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

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 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

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;

Zechariah 11:7
So I fed the flock to be slaughtered, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor” and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

Matthew 11:5
the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Mark 10:19
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”

Luke 3:13
He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”

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Psalms 7:16
The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Proverbs 10:6
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 21:7
The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

Jeremiah 7:9
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

Jeremiah 7:10
then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?

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.

Hosea 4:1
Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel, for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Micah 3:9
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity,

Micah 3:10
who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Micah 3:12
Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

Micah 6:2
Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s indictment, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a case against his people, and he will contend with Israel.

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Matthew 25:40
“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Matthew 25:41
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

Matthew 25:42
for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

Matthew 25:43
I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

Matthew 25:44
“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

Matthew 25:45
“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

Matthew 25:46
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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Exodus 21:20
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.

Exodus 21:26
“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

Ephesians 6:9
You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

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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Philippians 3:1
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

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Job 36:5
“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Matthew 19:27
Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?”

James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

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