But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who hav
You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.
But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “Thes
The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder o
But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are t
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecutio
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one a
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they
Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You mus
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses yo
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvest
When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safet
While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came
You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.
With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secret
The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’
While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews coordinated an attack on Paul and brought him before the judgment seat.
So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, H
Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They
He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
They are crushed and beaten down; the helpless fall prey to his strength.
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your
At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would s
“I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.