James 2:6
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6 But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?(A)
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1 Corinthians 11:22
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22 What! Do you not have households to eat and drink in? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I commend you? In this matter I do not commend you!
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Acts 17:6
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6 When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers and sisters before the city authorities, shouting, “These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also,(A)
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Psalm 14:6
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6 You would confound the plans of the poor,
but the Lord is their refuge.(A)
James 5:6
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6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.
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Acts 18:12
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12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal.
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Acts 13:50
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50 But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their region.
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Acts 8:3
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3 But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.(A)
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Proverbs 17:5
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5 Those who mock the poor insult their Maker;
those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished.(A)
Proverbs 14:31
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31 Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker,
but those who are kind to the needy honor him.(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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James 2:3
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3 and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat here in a good place, please,” while to the one who is poor you say, “Stand there,” or, “Sit by my footstool,”(A)
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Acts 16:19-20
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19 But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.(A) 20 When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men, these Jews, are disturbing our city(B)
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Acts 5:26-27
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26 Then the captain went with the temple police and brought them, but without violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.(A)
27 When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them,
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Acts 5:17-18
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The Apostles Are Persecuted
17 Then the high priest took action; he and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), being filled with jealousy, 18 arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.(A)
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Acts 4:26-28
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26 The kings of the earth took their stand,
and the rulers have gathered together
against the Lord and against his Messiah.’[a](A)
27 “For in this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant[b] Jesus, whom you anointed,(B) 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
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Acts 4:1-3
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Peter and John before the Council
4 While Peter and John[a] were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came to them,(A) 2 much annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming that in Jesus there is the resurrection of the dead.(B) 3 So they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.(C)
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- 4.1 Gk While they
Zechariah 7:10
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10 do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.(A)
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Habakkuk 3:14
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14 You pierced with their[a] own arrows the head of his warriors,[b]
who came like a whirlwind to scatter us,[c]
gloating as if ready to devour the poor who were in hiding.
Amos 8:4-6
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4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy,
and bring to ruin the poor of the land,(A)
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,(B)
6 buying the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”(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 2:6-7
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Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they sell the righteous for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals—(A)
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;(B)
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Isaiah 53:3
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3 He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering[a] and acquainted with infirmity,
and as one from whom others hide their faces[b]
he was despised, and we held him of no account.(A)
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