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1 Corinthians 11 22
Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this!
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Acts 17:6
When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting,“ These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,
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Psalms 14:6
You sinners frustrate the plans of the afflicted, but the Lord is his refuge.
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Acts 13:50
But the Jews incited the prominent women, who worshiped God, and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.
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Acts 18:12
While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the judge’s bench.
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James 5:6
You have condemned— you have murdered— the righteous man; he does not resist you.
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Acts 8:3
Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.
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Proverbs 14:31
The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker, but one who is kind to the needy honors Him.
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Proverbs 17:5
The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker, and one who rejoices over calamity will not go unpunished.
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Psalms 12:5
“ Because of the oppression of the afflicted and the groaning of the poor, I will now rise up,” says the Lord.“ I will put the one who longs for it in a safe place.”
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Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
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Psalms 10:14
But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief, observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands. The helpless entrusts himself to You; You are a helper of the fatherless.
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Acts 4:26-28
The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers assembled together against the Lord and against His Messiah.“ For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed,to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.
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Proverbs 22:16
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich— both lead only to poverty.
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James 2:3
If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say,“ Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor man,“ Stand over there,” or,“ Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”
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Isaiah 3:14-15
The Lord brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people:“ You have devastated the vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in your houses.Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” This is the declaration of the Lord God of Hosts.
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James 5:4
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
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Psalms 10:10
So he is oppressed and beaten down; the helpless fall because of his strength.
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Amos 4:1
Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands,“ Bring us something to drink.”
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Ecclesiastes 9:15-16
Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.And I said,“ Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”
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Amos 2:6-7
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and block the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning My holy name.
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Micah 6:11-12
Can I excuse wicked scales or bags of deceptive weights?For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.
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Psalms 10:8
He waits in ambush near the villages; he kills the innocent in secret places. His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.
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Habakkuk 3:14
You pierce his head with his own spears; his warriors storm out to scatter us, gloating as if ready to secretly devour the weak.
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Acts 5:17-18
Then the high priest took action. He and all his colleagues, those who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.So they arrested the apostles and put them in the city jail.
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Acts 16:19-20
When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.Bringing them before the chief magistrates, they said,“ These men are seriously disturbing our city. They are Jews
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Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.
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Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from; He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.
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1 Kings 21 11-1 Kings 21 13
The men of his city, the elders and nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had commanded them, as was written in the letters she had sent them.They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people.The two wicked men came in and sat opposite him. Then the wicked men testified against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying,“ Naboth has cursed God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
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Psalms 10:2
In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue the afflicted; let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.
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Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,asking,“ When will the New Moon be over so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so we may market wheat? We can reduce the measure while increasing the price and cheat with dishonest scales.We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”
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Acts 5:26-27
Then the commander went with the temple police and brought them in without force, because they were afraid the people might stone them.After they brought them in, they had them stand before the Sanhedrin, and the high priest asked,
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Acts 4:1-3
Now as they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the temple police, and the Sadducees confronted them,because they were provoked that they were teaching the people and proclaiming the resurrection from the dead, using Jesus as the example.So they seized them and put them in custody until the next day, since it was already evening.
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Job 20:19
For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.
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John 8:49
“ I do not have a demon,” Jesus answered.“ On the contrary, I honor My Father and you dishonor Me.