If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the op
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses yo
Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed
A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.
Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
A leader who lacks judgment is also a great oppressor, but he who hates dishonest profit will prolong his days.
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be co
Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished
to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He look
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they
Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time A
Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the wo
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing ex
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.