Deuteronomy 24:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 “No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 20:19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 “If you besiege a town for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you must not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them. Although you may take food from them, you must not cut them down. Are trees in the field human beings that they should come under siege from you?
Read full chapter
Revelation 18:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 and the sound of harpists and entertainers and of flutists and trumpeters
will be heard in you no more,
and an artisan of any trade
will be found in you no more,
and the sound of the millstone
will be heard in you no more,(A)
Luke 12:15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”(A)
Read full chapter
Exodus 22:26-27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as guarantee, you shall restore it before the sun goes down, 27 for it may be your neighbor’s only clothing to use as a cover. In what else shall that person sleep? And when your neighbor cries out to me, I will listen, for I am compassionate.
Read full chapter
Genesis 44:30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
30 Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.