Proverbs 21:13
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13 (A)Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
will himself call out and not be answered.
Matthew 6:14
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14 (A)For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
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Proverbs 1:28
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28 (A)Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
James 2:13-16
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13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Faith Without Works Is Dead
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith (B)but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 (C)If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 (D)and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good[a] is that?
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- James 2:16 Or benefit
Matthew 7:2
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2 (A)For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and (B)with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
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Matthew 18:30-35
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30 He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. 31 When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. 32 Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. 33 (A)And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ 34 (B)And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers,[a] (C)until he should pay all his debt. 35 (D)So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother (E)from your heart.”
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- Matthew 18:34 Greek torturers
Jeremiah 34:16-17
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16 but then you turned around (A)and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, (B)whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.
17 “Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me (C)by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; (D)behold, I proclaim to you liberty (E)to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. (F)I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Isaiah 58:6-9
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6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
(A)to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps (B)of the yoke,
to let the oppressed[a] go free,
and to break every yoke?
7 Is it not (C)to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
(D)and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 (E)Then shall your light break forth like the dawn,
(F)and your healing shall spring up speedily;
(G)your righteousness shall go before you;
(H)the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you take away (I)the yoke from your midst,
(J)the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
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- Isaiah 58:6 Or bruised
Proverbs 28:27
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Isaiah 1:15-17
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15 When you (A)spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
(B)even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
(C)your hands are full of blood.
16 (D)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
(E)cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good;
(F)seek justice,
correct oppression;
(G)bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow's cause.
Zechariah 7:9-13
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9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, (A)Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, 10 (B)do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, (C)or the poor, and (D)let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” 11 But (E)they refused to pay attention (F)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a] 12 (G)They made their hearts diamond-hard (H)lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent (I)by his Spirit through (J)the former prophets. (K)Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts. 13 (L)“As I[b] called, and they would not hear, (M)so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,
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- Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
- Zechariah 7:13 Hebrew he
Psalm 58:4
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4 (A)They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
Psalm 18:41
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41 (A)They cried for help, but there was none to save;
they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
Acts 7:57
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57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together[a] at him.
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- Acts 7:57 Or rushed with one mind
Matthew 25:41-46
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41 “Then he will say to those on his left, (A)‘Depart from me, you (B)cursed, into (C)the eternal fire prepared for (D)the devil and his angels. 42 For (E)I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, (F)you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away (G)into eternal punishment, but the righteous (H)into (I)eternal life.”
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Nehemiah 5:13
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13 (A)I also shook out the fold[a] of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” (B)And all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.
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- Nehemiah 5:13 Hebrew bosom
Nehemiah 5:1-5
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Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor
5 Now there arose (A)a great outcry of the people and of their wives (B)against their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for (C)the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now (D)our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet (E)we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
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Deuteronomy 15:7-11
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7 “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, (A)you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, 8 but (B)you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. 9 Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your (C)eye look grudgingly[a] on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he (D)cry to the Lord against you, and (E)you be guilty of sin. 10 You shall give to him freely, and (F)your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because (G)for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. 11 For (H)there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, (I)‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’
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- Deuteronomy 15:9 Or be evil; also verse 10
Luke 13:25
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25 (A)When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, (B)‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, (C)‘I do not know where you come from.’
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