The people of the land oppressed with violence and stripped off robbery, and oppressed the poor and needy, and did violence to the stranger without judgment

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Exodus 1:14

And they will embitter their lives by hard work in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field: all their work in which they made them serve by oppression.

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James 5:4

Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

2 Kings 4:1

And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

And I turned back, and I shall see all the oppressions which are doing under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and none comforting to them; and from the hand of those oppressing them was power, and none comforting to them.

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James 2:6

And ye have despised the beggar. Do not the rich bring you into subjection, and draw you before tribunals?

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Exodus 5:8

And the measure of bricks which they made yesterday and the third day, ye shall put upon them; ye shall not take away from it, for they are slack; for this they cried, saying, We will go to sacrifice to our God.

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Nehemiah 5:1

And a cry of the people and their wives will be great against their brethren the Jews.

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Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Jehovah of armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his pleasures: and he will wait for judgment, and behold bloodshed; for justice, and behold a cry.

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The poor » Despised

Ecclesiastes 9:16

And I said, Wisdom is good above strength: and the wisdom of the poor one was despised, and his words not heard.

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James 2:6

And ye have despised the beggar. Do not the rich bring you into subjection, and draw you before tribunals?

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Proverbs 14:20

Also the poor shall be hated by his neighbor: and many loving the rich one.

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Proverbs 19:7

All the brethren of the poor hated him: how much more his friends removed far from him? pursuing words they are not

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Respect of persons » Partiality

Proverbs 28:21

To look upon faces is not good and for a morsel of bread the man will transgress.

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Proverbs 24:23

Also these to the wise. To look upon the face in judgment is not good.

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James 2:1-9

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, of glory, with distinction of faces. For if there come into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings on is fingers, in brilliant clothing, and there come in also a beggar in filthy clothing; And ye look toward him bearing the brilliant clothing, and ye say to him, Sit thou well here; and to the beggar ye say, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: read more.
Were ye not separated among yourselves, and become judges of evil reflections? Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him? And ye have despised the beggar. Do not the rich bring you into subjection, and draw you before tribunals? And do they not defame the good name called upon you? If yet ye complete the royal law according to the writing, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: And if ye make distinction of faces, ye work sin, being convicted under the law as transgressors.