Proverbs 22:7

Proverbs Of Solomon

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. ⁷ The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender. ⁸ He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Rule Over

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Proverbs 18:23

The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

2 Kings 4:1

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

Nehemiah 5:4-5

There were also some who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 22:16

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not exploit the poor, because he is poor; and do not crush the needy in court;

Isaiah 24:2

It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

Amos 2:6

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

Amos 4:1

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks."

Amos 5:11-12

Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Amos 8:6

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

Matthew 18:25

But because he could not pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.