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Deuteronomy 24:12-17
If your neighbor is poor and gives you his cloak as security for a loan, do not keep the cloak overnight.Return the cloak to its owner by sunset so he can stay warm through the night and bless you, and the Lord your God will count you as righteous.“ Never take advantage of poor and destitute laborers, whether they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns.You must pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and are counting on it. If you don’t, they might cry out to the Lord against you, and it would be counted against you as sin.“ Parents must not be put to death for the sins of their children, nor children for the sins of their parents. Those deserving to die must be put to death for their own crimes.“ True justice must be given to foreigners living among you and to orphans, and you must never accept a widow’s garment as security for her debt.
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Exodus 22:26-27
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as security for a loan, you must return it before sunset.This coat may be the only blanket your neighbor has. How can a person sleep without it? If you do not return it and your neighbor cries out to me for help, then I will hear, for I am merciful.
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Amos 6:6
You drink wine by the bowlful and perfume yourselves with fragrant lotions. You care nothing about the ruin of your nation.
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Amos 4:1
Listen to me, you fat cows living in Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, and who are always calling to your husbands,“ Bring us another drink!”
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Judges 9:27
During the annual harvest festival at Shechem, held in the temple of the local god, the wine flowed freely, and everyone began cursing Abimelech.
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Ezekiel 23:41
You sat with them on a beautifully embroidered couch and put my incense and my special oil on a table that was spread before you.
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Hosea 4:8
“ When the people bring their sin offerings, the priests get fed. So the priests are glad when the people sin!
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Ezekiel 18:7
He is a merciful creditor, not keeping the items given as security by poor debtors. He does not rob the poor but instead gives food to the hungry and provides clothes for the needy.
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1 Corinthians 10 7
or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say,“ The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.”
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Ezekiel 18:12
oppresses the poor and helpless, steals from debtors by refusing to let them redeem their security, worships idols, commits detestable sins,
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1 Corinthians 8 10
For if others see you— with your“ superior knowledge”— eating in the temple of an idol, won’t they be encouraged to violate their conscience by eating food that has been offered to an idol?
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Amos 6:4
How terrible for you who sprawl on ivory beds and lounge on your couches, eating the meat of tender lambs from the flock and of choice calves fattened in the stall.
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1 Corinthians 10 21
You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord’s Table and at the table of demons, too.
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Isaiah 57:7
You have committed adultery on every high mountain. There you have worshiped idols and have been unfaithful to me.
