Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Woe
Them
General references
Bible References
Woe
Isaiah 3:11
How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done to others will be done to them.
Isaiah 5:8
Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
Jeremiah 22:13
Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice. Woe to him who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages.
Habakkuk 2:6
Will they all taunt him by directing clever sayings and riddles at him? They will say: How horrible it will be for the one who makes himself rich with what is not his own (by extortion) and makes himself wealthy on loans. How long will this go on?
Matthew 11:21
Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon that were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew 23:13
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You close the kingdom of heaven to people. You do not invite others to enter nor do you enter.
Matthew 26:24
It is written that the Son of man will depart. The man who betrays him will experience much grief. It would have been better if that man had not been born.
Luke 11:42
Woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God. You should have done these but you leave them undone.
Jude 1:11
Woe to them! They went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the rebellious talk of Korah.
Them
1 Kings 21:13
The two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people. They said: Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
Esther 3:10
The king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of the Jews.
Psalm 58:2
No, in your heart you plot unrighteousness. You measure out the violence of your hands on the earth.
Psalm 94:20
Can wicked rulers be allied with you? They frame mischief by decree (the law).
Daniel 6:8
Now, O king, establish the decree by signing the document. That it will not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be altered.
Micah 3:1
I said: Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not your responsibility to know justice?
Micah 6:16
The statutes of Omri and the works of the house of Ahab are observed. You walk in their counsels. I will make you desolation! The inhabitants will be hissed. You will bear the reproach of my people.
John 9:22
The parents said these things because they feared the Jews. The Jews had agreed that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
John 19:6
When the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out: Impale him! Impale him! Pilate replied: Take him yourselves, and impale him for he has committed no crime!
General references
Exodus 23:6
Do not deny justice to a poor person at his trial.
Isaiah 59:14
Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away. Truth has fallen in the street, and honesty cannot come in.