Hosea 12:7
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7 A trader in whose hands are false balances,
he loves to oppress.(A)
Micah 6:10-11
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10 Can I forget[a] the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked
and the despicable false measure?(A)
11 Can I tolerate wicked scales
and a bag of dishonest weights?(B)
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- 6.10 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Amos 8:5-6
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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,(A)
6 buying the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”(B)
Proverbs 11:1
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11 A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,
but an accurate weight is his delight.(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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1 Timothy 6:9-10
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9 But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.(A) 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
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John 2:16
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16 He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!”(A)
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Malachi 3:5
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5 Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.(A)
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Zechariah 14:21
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21 and every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and use them to boil the flesh of the sacrifice. And there shall no longer be traders[a] in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.(A)
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- 14.21 Or Canaanites
Micah 7:2
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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)
Micah 3:1-3
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Wicked Rulers and Prophets
3 And I said:
Listen, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
Should you not know justice?—(A)
2 you who hate the good and love the evil,
who tear the skin off my people[a]
and the flesh off their bones,(B)
3 who eat the flesh of my people,
flay their skin off them,
break their bones in pieces,
and chop them up like meat[b] in a kettle,
like flesh in a caldron.(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 3:9
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9 Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod
and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt,
and say, “Assemble yourselves on Mount[a] Samaria,
and see what great tumults are within it
and what oppressions are in its midst.”(A)
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- 3.9 Gk Syr: Heb the mountains of
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)
Ezekiel 22:29
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29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the alien without justice.(A)
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Ezekiel 16:3
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3 and say: Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.(A)
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Isaiah 3:5
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5 The people will be oppressed,
everyone by another
and everyone by a neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder
and the base to the honorable.(A)
Proverbs 16:11
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11 Honest balances and scales are the Lord’s;
all the weights in the bag are his work.(A)
1 Samuel 12:3
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3 Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me,[a] and I will restore it to you.”(A)
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- 12.3 Gk: Heb lacks Testify against me
Leviticus 19:35-36
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35 “You shall not cheat in measuring length, weight, or quantity. 36 You shall have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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Micah 2:1
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Social Evils Denounced
2 Woe to those who devise wickedness
and evil deeds[a] on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in their power.(A)
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- 2.1 Cn: Heb work evil
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