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Amos 5:12
Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts and your numerous sins. You torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.
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Isaiah 10:2
to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.
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Ezekiel 22:11
One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.
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1 Corinthians 5 1
It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.
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Micah 2:9
You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.
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Micah 2:2
They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
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Leviticus 18:8
You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.
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Amos 4:1
Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“ Bring us more to drink!”
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1 Kings 21 4
So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said,“ I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, pouted, and would not eat.
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Leviticus 20:3
I myself will set my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.
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Leviticus 18:15
You must not have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have intercourse with her.
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Ezekiel 36:20
But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them,‘ These are the people of the LORD, yet they have departed from his land.’
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Micah 7:2-3
Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.They are determined to be experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men make demands, and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them.
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Proverbs 28:21
To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.
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Romans 2:24
For just as it is written,“ the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
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2 Samuel 12 14
Nonetheless, because you have treated the LORD with such contempt in this matter, the son who has been born to you will certainly die.”
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Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.
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Amos 8:4
Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.