Amos 2:7
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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;(A)
Amos 5:12
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12 For I know how many are your transgressions
and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe
and push aside the needy in the gate.(A)
1 Corinthians 5:1
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Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church
5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you and the sort of sexual immorality that is not found even among gentiles, for a man is living with his father’s wife.(A)
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Micah 2:9
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9 The women of my people you drive out
from their pleasant houses;
from their young children you take away
my glory forever.
Micah 2:2
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2 They covet fields and seize them,
houses and take them away;
they oppress householder and house,
people and their inheritance.(A)
Ezekiel 22:11
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11 One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father’s daughter.(A)
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Isaiah 10:2
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2 to turn aside the needy from justice
and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
to make widows their spoil
and to plunder orphans!(A)
Romans 2:24
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24 For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed[a] among the gentiles because of you.”(A)
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- 2.24 Or despised
Zephaniah 3:3
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3 The officials within it
are roaring lions;
its judges are evening wolves
that leave nothing until the morning.(A)
Micah 7:2-3
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2 The faithful have disappeared from the land,
and there is no one left who is upright;
they all lie in wait for blood,
and they hunt each other with nets.(A)
3 Their hands are skilled to do evil;
the official and the judge ask for a bribe,
and the powerful dictate what they desire;
thus they pervert justice.[a](B)
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- 7.3 Cn: Heb they weave it
Amos 8:4
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4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy,
and bring to ruin the poor of the land,(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)
Ezekiel 36:20
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20 But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that it was said of them, “These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to go out of his land.”(A)
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Proverbs 28:21
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21 To show partiality is not good,
yet for a piece of bread a person may do wrong.
1 Kings 21:4
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4 Ahab went home resentful and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you my ancestral inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat.(A)
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2 Samuel 12:14
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14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord,[a] the child born to you shall die.”(A)
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- 12.14 Cn: Heb scorned the enemies of the Lord
Leviticus 20:3
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3 I myself will set my face against them and will cut them off from the people, because they have given of their offspring to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.(A)
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Leviticus 18:15
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15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.(A)
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Leviticus 18:8
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8 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is the nakedness of your father.
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