Leviticus 25:17 Ye
shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt
fear thy God: for I [
am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:13 Thou
shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob [
him]:
the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Deuteronomy 16:19-
20 Thou shalt not
wrest judgment; thou shalt not
respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the
words of the righteous. ... That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest
live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Judges 4:3 And the children of Israel
cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred
chariots of iron; and twenty years he
mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
1 Samuel 12:3-
4 Behold, here I [
am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before
his anointed:
whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received [
any]
bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and
I will restore it you. ... And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was
wroth with the seer, and
put him in a prison house; for [
he was] in a rage with him because of this [
thing]. And Asa
oppressed [
some] of the people
the same time.
Nehemiah 9:36-
37 Behold, we [
are] servants this day, and [
for] the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we [
are] servants in it: ... And
it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have
dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we [
are] in great distress.
Job 20:19-
20 Because he hath
oppressed [
and] hath forsaken the poor; [
because]
he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; ...
Surely he shall not
feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
Psalms 10:18 To
judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that
the man of the earth may no more
oppress.
Proverbs 14:31 He
that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker:
but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Proverbs 21:13 Whoso
stoppeth his ears
at the cry of the poor, he also shall
cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs 22:16 He
that oppresseth the poor to increase his [
riches, and]
he that giveth to the rich, [
shall] surely [
come] to want.
Proverbs 28:3 A
poor man that oppresseth the poor [
is like] a sweeping rain
which leaveth no food.
Proverbs 28:8 He
that by usury and
unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will
pity the poor.
Proverbs 28:16 The
prince that wanteth understanding [
is] also a great oppressor: [
but]
he that hateth covetousness shall prolong [
his] days.
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If
thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province,
marvel not at the
matter:
for [
he that is] higher than the highest
regardeth; and [
there be]
higher than they.
Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do well;
seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah 3:12-
15 [
As for] my people,
children [
are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which
lead thee cause [
thee] to err, and
destroy the way of thy paths. ...
What mean ye [
that]
ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Isaiah 5:7 For
the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [
is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah
his pleasant plant: and
he looked for judgment,
but behold
oppression; for righteousness, but behold
a cry.
Isaiah 33:15 He
that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of
oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that
stoppeth his ears from hearing of
blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isaiah 58:6 [
Is] not this the fast that I have chosen?
to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the
heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Jeremiah 22:17 But
thine eyes and thine heart [
are] not but for thy
covetousness, and for
to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for
violence, to do [
it].
Ezekiel 22:7 In thee have they
set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they
dealt by
oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 22:12-
13 In thee have they
taken gifts to shed blood;
thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast
greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion,
and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. ... Behold, therefore
I have smitten mine hand at
thy dishonest gain which thou hast made,
and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
Amos 5:11-
12 Forasmuch therefore as your
treading [
is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat:
ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted
pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. ... For
I know your
manifold transgressions and your mighty sins:
they afflict the just, they
take a
bribe, and they turn aside the poor
in the gate [
from their right].
Amos 8:4-
7 Hear this, O ye that
swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, ... The LORD hath
sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely
I will never forget any of their works.
Micah 2:2-
3 And
they covet fields, and take [
them] by violence; and houses, and take [
them] away:
so they
oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. ... Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against
this family do I devise an evil,
from which ye shall not remove your
necks; neither shall ye
go haughtily:
for this time [
is] evil.
Micah 6:10-
12 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
and the
scant measure [
that is] abominable? ... For
the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have
spoken lies, and their tongue [
is] deceitful in their mouth.
Micah 7:3 That they may
do evil with both hands earnestly,
the prince asketh, and the judge [
asketh] for a reward; and
the great [
man], he uttereth
his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Luke 3:14 And
the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them,
Do violence to no man, neither
accuse [
any] falsely;
and be content with your
wages.
1 Corinthians 6:8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [
your] brethren.
James 5:1-
5 Go to now,
[ye] rich men,
weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [
you]. ... Ye
have lived in pleasure on the earth, and
been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts,
as in a day of slaughter.
