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Jeremiah 7:15
I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.’ (niv)
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Psalms 7:16
The trouble they cause recoils on them; their violence comes down on their own heads. (niv)
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Isaiah 1:23-24
Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares:“ Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies. (niv)
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Proverbs 22:22-23
Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,for the Lord will take up their case and will exact life for life. (niv)
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Micah 3:9-12
Hear this, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right;who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say,“ Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.”Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets. (niv)
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Proverbs 21:21
Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor. (niv)
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Ezekiel 22:13-14
“‘ I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst.Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it. (niv)
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Proverbs 1:18-19
These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves!Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it. (niv)
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Jeremiah 7:9-11
“‘ Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say,“ We are safe”— safe to do all these detestable things?Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord. (niv)
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Ezekiel 18:18
But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people. (niv)
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Zechariah 5:3-4
And he said to me,“ This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.The Lord Almighty declares,‘ I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’” (niv)
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Proverbs 10:6
Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. (niv)
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Psalms 9:16
The Lord is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. (niv)
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Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. (niv)