Amos 8:4
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4 Hear this, (A)you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
Psalm 14:4
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4 Have they no (A)knowledge, all the evildoers
who (B)eat up my people as they eat bread
and (C)do not call upon the Lord?
Proverbs 30:14
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14 There are those whose teeth are (A)swords,
whose (B)fangs are knives,
to (C)devour the poor from off the earth,
the needy from among mankind.
Amos 5:11
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Isaiah 32:6-7
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6 For (A)the fool speaks folly,
and his heart is busy with iniquity,
to practice ungodliness,
to utter error concerning the Lord,
(B)to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
7 As for the scoundrel—(C)his devices are evil;
he plans wicked schemes
to ruin the poor with lying words,
even when the plea of the needy is right.
James 5:6
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6 You have condemned and (A)murdered (B)the righteous person. He does not resist you.
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Matthew 23:13
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13 “But woe (A)to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you (B)shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you (C)neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[a]
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- Matthew 23:13 Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation
Amos 7:16
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16 (A)Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.
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Amos 2:6-7
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Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (B)they sell the righteous for (C)silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals—
7 those who trample the head of the poor (D)into the dust of the earth
and (E)turn aside the way of the afflicted;
(F)a man and his father go in to the same girl,
so that my holy name is profaned;
Jeremiah 28:15
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15 And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, (A)the Lord has not sent you, (B)and you have made this people trust in a lie.
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Jeremiah 5:21
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21 “Hear this, (A)O foolish and senseless people,
(B)who have eyes, but see not,
who have ears, but hear not.
Isaiah 28:14
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A Cornerstone in Zion
14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you (A)scoffers,
who rule this people in Jerusalem!
Isaiah 1:10
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10 Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of (A)(B)Sodom!
Give ear to the teaching[a] of our God,
you people of (C)Gomorrah!
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- Isaiah 1:10 Or law
Psalm 140:12
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12 I know that the Lord will (A)maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and (B)will execute justice for the needy.
Psalm 56:1
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In God I Trust
To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A (A)Miktam[a] of David, when the (B)Philistines seized him in Gath.
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- Psalm 56:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 12:5
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5 “Because (A)the poor are plundered, because the needy groan,
(B)I will now arise,” says the Lord;
“I will place him in the (C)safety for which he longs.”
1 Kings 22:19
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19 And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: (A)I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, (B)and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left;
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