Amos 5:12
and your sins innumerable.
They oppress the righteous,
and deprive the poor of justice
Amos 2:6-7
The Lord says:
for three crimes, even four,
because they sell a righteous person for silver
and a needy person for a pair of sandals.
1 Samuel 8:3
However, his sons did not walk in his ways—they turned toward dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
Isaiah 1:23
friends of thieves.
They all love graft
and chase after bribes.
They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,
and the widow’s case never comes before them.
Isaiah 29:21
accuse a person of wrongdoing,
who set a trap at the gate for the mediator,
and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.
Amos 5:10
at the city gate
and despise
Deuteronomy 16:18
“Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 31:21
And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because
Ruth 4:1
Boaz went to the gate of the town
2 Kings 17:7-17
This disaster happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt
Job 29:7-25
and took my seat in the town square,
Job 31:21
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,
Psalm 26:9-10
or my life along with men of bloodshed
Proverbs 22:22
and don’t crush the oppressed
Isaiah 5:23
and deprive the innocent of justice.
Isaiah 10:2
and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.
Isaiah 33:15
and speaks rightly,
who refuses gain from extortion,
whose hand never takes a bribe,
who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots
and shuts his eyes to avoid endorsing evil
Isaiah 47:9
suddenly, in one day:
loss of children and widowhood.
They will happen to you in their entirety,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the potency of your spells.
Isaiah 66:18
“Knowing
Jeremiah 29:23
because they have committed an outrage
Lamentations 3:34
ל Lamed
beneath one’s feet,
Amos 2:16
will flee naked on that day
this is the Lord’s declaration.
Micah 3:11
her priests teach for payment,
and her prophets practice divination for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,
“Isn’t the Lord
No disaster will overtake us.”
Micah 7:3
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.
Malachi 3:5
“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, and cheat the wage earner; and against those who deny justice to the foreigner.
Acts 3:13-14
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers,
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?
Hebrews 4:12-13
For the word of God is living and effective
James 5:4
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers
James 5:6
You have condemned—you have murdered—the righteous man; he does not resist you.
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suddenly, in one day:
loss of children and widowhood.
They will happen to you in their entirety,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the potency of your spells.
They afflict
for three crimes, even four,
because they sell a righteous person for silver
and a needy person for a pair of sandals.
Take
or my life along with men of bloodshed
friends of thieves.
They all love graft
and chase after bribes.
They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,
and the widow’s case never comes before them.
and speaks rightly,
who refuses gain from extortion,
whose hand never takes a bribe,
who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots
and shuts his eyes to avoid endorsing evil
her priests teach for payment,
and her prophets practice divination for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,
“Isn’t the Lord
No disaster will overtake us.”
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.
And they
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.
and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.
accuse a person of wrongdoing,
who set a trap at the gate for the mediator,
and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.
beneath one’s feet,
In the
at the city gate
and despise
and took my seat in the town square,
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,
and don’t crush the oppressed
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and defend the cause of