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Proverbs 18:23
The poor plead for mercy; the rich answer with insults.
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Proverbs 22:22
Don’t rob the poor just because you can, or exploit the needy in court.
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Proverbs 22:16
A person who gets ahead by oppressing the poor or by showering gifts on the rich will end in poverty.
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James 2:6
But you dishonor the poor! Isn’t it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
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Nehemiah 5:4-5
And others said,“ We have had to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay our taxes.We belong to the same family as those who are wealthy, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others.”
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Proverbs 14:31
Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but helping the poor honors him.
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2 Kings 4 1
One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out,“ My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”
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James 5:1
Look here, you rich people: Weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.
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Matthew 18:25
He couldn’t pay, so his master ordered that he be sold— along with his wife, his children, and everything he owned— to pay the debt.
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Amos 8:6
And you mix the grain you sell with chaff swept from the floor. Then you enslave poor people for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.
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Amos 5:11-12
You trample the poor, stealing their grain through taxes and unfair rent. Therefore, though you build beautiful stone houses, you will never live in them. Though you plant lush vineyards, you will never drink wine from them.For I know the vast number of your sins and the depth of your rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
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Amos 8:4
Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample down the needy!
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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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Amos 2:6
This is what the Lord says:“ The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They sell honorable people for silver and poor people for a pair of sandals.
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Isaiah 24:2
Priests and laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers and debtors— none will be spared.
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James 5:4
For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The cries of those who harvest your fields have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.