Isaiah 58:6

No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.

Nehemiah 5:10-12

Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral!

Isaiah 58:9

Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond; you will cry out, and he will reply, 'Here I am.' You must remove the burdensome yoke from among you and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.

Jeremiah 34:8-11

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to grant their slaves their freedom.

Micah 3:2-4

yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

1 Timothy 6:1

Those who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters as deserving of full respect. This will prevent the name of God and Christian teaching from being discredited.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Ye break

Bible References

To loose

Nehemiah 5:10
Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral!
Jeremiah 34:8
The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to grant their slaves their freedom.
Micah 3:2
yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

Ye break

1 Timothy 6:1
Those who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters as deserving of full respect. This will prevent the name of God and Christian teaching from being discredited.

General references

Leviticus 25:14
If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.
Proverbs 24:11
Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.
Isaiah 57:12
I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.

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