Jeremiah 5:28
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28 (A)they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
(B)they judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
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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Isaiah 1:23
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23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone (A)loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
(B)They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Psalm 73:12
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12 Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they (A)increase in riches.
Jeremiah 7:6
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6 if you (A)do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, (B)or shed innocent blood in this place, (C)and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,
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James 5:4-5
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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. 5 (D)You have lived on the earth in luxury and (E)in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in (F)a day of slaughter.
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1 Corinthians 5:1
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Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church
5 It is actually reported that there is (A)sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, (B)for a man has his father's wife.
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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!’
Ezekiel 16:47-52
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47 (A)Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time (B)you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. 48 (C)As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister (D)Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. 49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, (E)excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and (F)did an abomination before me. So (G)I removed them, when I saw it. 51 (H)Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and (I)have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. 52 (J)Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
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Ezekiel 5:6-7
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6 And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness (A)more than the nations, and against my statutes more than (B)the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are (C)more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, (D)and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, (E)and have not[a] even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
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- Ezekiel 5:7 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac lack not
Jeremiah 22:15-19
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15 Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and (A)do justice and righteousness?
(B)Then it was well with him.
16 (C)He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
(D)then it was well.
Is not this (E)to know me?
declares the Lord.
17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
(F)for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
(G)“They shall not lament for him, saying,
(H)‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
(I)‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19 With the burial of a donkey (J)he shall be buried,
dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
Jeremiah 12:1
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Jeremiah's Complaint
12 (A)Righteous are you, O Lord,
when I complain to you;
yet I would plead my case before you.
(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all (C)who are treacherous thrive?
Jeremiah 2:33
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33 “How well you direct your course
to seek love!
So that even to wicked women
you have taught your ways.
Psalm 119:70
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Psalm 82:2-4
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Psalm 73:6-7
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6 Therefore pride is (A)their necklace;
violence covers them as (B)a garment.
7 Their (C)eyes swell out through fatness;
their hearts overflow with follies.
Psalm 72:4
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4 May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
give deliverance to the children of the needy,
and crush the oppressor!
Job 29:12-14
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12 because I (A)delivered the poor who cried for help,
and the fatherless who had none to help him.
13 (B)The blessing of him who was (C)about to perish came upon me,
and I caused (D)the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14 I (E)put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
my justice was like a robe and (F)a turban.
Job 21:23-24
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23 One dies in his full vigor,
being wholly at ease and secure,
24 his pails[a] full of milk
and (A)the marrow of his bones moist.
Footnotes
- Job 21:24 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
Job 15:27-28
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27 because he has (A)covered his face with his fat
and gathered fat upon his waist
28 and has lived in desolate cities,
in houses that none should inhabit,
which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
Job 12:6
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6 (A)The tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hand.[a]
Footnotes
- Job 12:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
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