Isaiah 33:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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;

Despiseth

James 5:4

Shaketh

Stoppeth

Shutteth

Psalm 119:37

General references

Bible References

Despiseth

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, "You exact usury, everyone of his brother." I held a great assembly against them.

"If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."

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 Armies.

Shaketh

"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't respect their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them."

You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? I will restore it to you."

For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

Stoppeth

The men of David said to him, "Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, 'Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.

Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time."

"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Shutteth

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

General references

"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Abstain from every form of evil.