James 2:6
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6 But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?(A)
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1 Corinthians 11:22
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22 What! Do you not have households to eat and drink in? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I commend you? In this matter I do not commend you!
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Proverbs 17:5
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5 Those who mock the poor insult their Maker;
those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished.(A)
Proverbs 14:31
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31 Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker,
but those who are kind to the needy honor him.(A)
Psalm 14:6
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6 You would confound the plans of the poor,
but the Lord is their refuge.(A)
James 5:4
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4 Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.(A)
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James 2:3
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3 and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat here in a good place, please,” while to the one who is poor you say, “Stand there,” or, “Sit by my footstool,”(A)
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Acts 17:6
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6 When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers and sisters before the city authorities, shouting, “These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also,(A)
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Acts 13:50
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50 But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their region.
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Acts 8:3
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3 But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.(A)
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Zechariah 7:10
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10 do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.(A)
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Amos 8:4-6
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4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy,
and bring to ruin the poor of the land,(A)
5 saying, “When will the new moon be over
so that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
so that we may offer wheat for sale?
We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier
and practice deceit with false balances,(B)
6 buying the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”(C)
Amos 5:11
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11 Therefore because you trample on the poor
and take from them levies of grain,
you have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not live in them;
you have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.(A)
Amos 4:1
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4 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan
who are on Mount Samaria,
who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”(A)
Amos 2:6-7
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Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they sell the righteous for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals—(A)
7 they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth
and push the afflicted out of the way;
father and son go in to the same young woman,
so that my holy name is profaned;(B)
Footnotes
- 2.6 Heb cause it to return
Isaiah 3:14-15
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14 The Lord enters into judgment
with the elders and princes of his people:
It is you who have devoured the vineyard;
the spoil of the poor is in your houses.(A)
15 What do you mean by crushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.(B)
Ecclesiastes 9:15-16
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15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.(A) 16 So I said, “Wisdom is better than might; yet the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded.”(B)
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
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8 If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and right, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.(A)
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Proverbs 22:16
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16 Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself,
and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.
Psalm 12:5
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5 “Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan,
I will now rise up,” says the Lord;
“I will place them in the safety for which they long.”(A)
Psalm 10:14
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14 But you do see! Indeed, you note trouble and grief,
that you may take it into your hands;
the helpless commit themselves to you;
you have been the helper of the orphan.(A)
James 5:6
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6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.
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Acts 18:12
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12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal.
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Acts 16:19-20
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19 But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.(A) 20 When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men, these Jews, are disturbing our city(B)
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