James 2:6
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6 But you (A)have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who (B)drag you (C)into court?
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1 Corinthians 11:22
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22 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise (A)the church of God and (B)humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
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Proverbs 17:5
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5 Whoever mocks the poor (A)insults his Maker;
he who is (B)glad at calamity will not go (C)unpunished.
Proverbs 14:31
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31 Whoever oppresses a poor man (A)insults his (B)Maker,
(C)but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Psalm 14:6
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- Psalm 14:6 Or for
James 5:4
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4 Behold, (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (B)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (C)the Lord of hosts.
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James 2:3
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3 and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” (A)while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,”
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Acts 17:6
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6 And when they could not find them, (A)they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
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Acts 16:19-20
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19 But (A)when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and (B)dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. 20 And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city.
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Acts 13:50
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50 (A)But the Jews incited the devout (B)women of high standing and the leading men of the city, (C)stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and (D)drove them out of their district.
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Acts 8:3
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3 But (A)Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he (B)dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
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Zechariah 7:10
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10 (A)do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, (B)or the poor, and (C)let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
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Micah 6:11-12
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11 Shall I acquit the man (A)with wicked scales
and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12 Your[a] rich men are (B)full of violence;
your inhabitants (C)speak lies,
and (D)their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
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- Micah 6:12 Hebrew whose
Amos 8:4-6
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4 Hear this, (A)you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5 saying, “When will (B)the new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And (C)the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make (D)the ephah small and the shekel[a] great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6 that we may buy the poor for (E)silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
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- Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Amos 5:11
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Amos 4:1
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4 “Hear this word, (A)you cows of Bashan,
who are (B)on the mountain of Samaria,
(C)who oppress the poor, (D)who crush the needy,
who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
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;
Isaiah 3:14-15
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14 The Lord will enter into judgment
with the (A)elders and princes of his people:
“It is you who (B)have devoured[a] the vineyard,
(C)the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by (D)crushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.
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- Isaiah 3:14 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
Ecclesiastes 9:15-16
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15 But there was found in it (A)a poor, wise man, and he by his (B)wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man. 16 But I say that (C)wisdom is better than might, though (D)the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
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The Vanity of Wealth and Honor
8 (A)If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, (B)do not be amazed at the matter, (C)for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
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Proverbs 22:16
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16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,
or gives to the rich, (A)will only come to poverty.
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.”
Psalm 10:14
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14 But you do see, for you (A)note mischief and vexation,
that you may take it into your hands;
to you the helpless (B)commits himself;
you have been (C)the helper of the fatherless.
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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Acts 18:12
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12 But when Gallio was (A)proconsul of Achaia, (B)the Jews[a] made a united attack on Paul and (C)brought him before the tribunal,
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- Acts 18:12 Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 14 (twice), 28
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