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Jeremiah 22:3
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
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Ezekiel 44:6
And say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: O house of Israel, enough of all your abominations,
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Zechariah 8:16
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
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1 Peter 4 3
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
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Job 24:2-12
Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.( There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.
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Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
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Nehemiah 5:1-13
Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.For there were those who said,“ With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”There were also those who said,“ We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”And there were those who said,“ We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words.I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them,“ You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against themand said to them,“ We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.So I said,“ The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest.Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”Then they said,“ We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.I also shook out the fold of my garment and said,“ So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said“ Amen” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.
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Job 20:19
For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.
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Luke 3:14
Soldiers also asked him,“ And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them,“ Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”
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Ezekiel 43:14-16
from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit;and the altar hearth, four cubits; and from the altar hearth projecting upward, four horns.The altar hearth shall be square, twelve cubits long by twelve broad.
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Psalms 82:2-5
“ How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? SelahGive justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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Micah 2:1-2
Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
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1 Corinthians 6 7-1 Corinthians 6 8
To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?But you yourselves wrong and defraud— even your own brothers!
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Micah 2:9
The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.
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Isaiah 1:17
learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.
