Jeremiah 17:11
is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.
In the middle of his days
his riches will abandon him,
so in the end he will be a fool.
Luke 12:20
Psalm 55:23
to the Pit of destruction;
men of bloodshed and treachery
will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.
Jeremiah 22:13
through unrighteousness,
his upper rooms through injustice,
who makes his fellow man serve without pay
and will not give him his wages,
Jeremiah 22:17
except your own dishonest profit,
shedding innocent blood
and committing extortion and oppression.
Proverbs 1:18-19
they attack their own lives.
Proverbs 13:11
but whoever earns it through labor
Proverbs 15:27
but the one who hates bribes will live.
Proverbs 21:6
is a vanishing mist,
Proverbs 23:5
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.
Proverbs 28:8
collects it for one who is kind to the poor.
Proverbs 28:16
is very oppressive,
but one who hates dishonest profit
prolongs his life.
Proverbs 28:20
but one in a hurry to get rich
will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 28:22
he doesn’t know that poverty will come to him.
Ecclesiastes 5:13-16
There is a sickening tragedy I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
Isaiah 1:23-24
friends of thieves.
They all love graft
and chase after bribes.
They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,
and the widow’s case never comes before them.
Jeremiah 5:27-28
so their houses are full of deceit.
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.
Ezekiel 22:12-13
People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.
Hosea 12:7-8
with dishonest scales in his hands.
Amos 3:10
this is the Lord’s declaration—
those who store up violence and destruction
in their citadels.
Amos 8:4-6
and do away with the poor of the land,
Micah 2:1-2
and prepare evil plans
At morning light
because the power is in their hands.
Micah 2:9
out of their comfortable homes,
and you take My blessing
from their children forever.
Micah 6:10-12
and the accursed short measure
in the house of the wicked?
Micah 7:3
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.
Habakkuk 2:6-12
with mockery and riddles about him?
They will say:
how much longer?—
and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.
Zephaniah 1:9
all who skip over the threshold,
who fill their master’s house
with violence and deceit.
Zechariah 5:4
I will send it out,”
Zechariah 7:9-13
“The Lord of Hosts says this: Make fair decisions.
Malachi 3:5
“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, and cheat the wage earner; and against those who deny justice to the foreigner.
Matthew 23:13
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Titus 1:11
It is necessary to silence them; they overthrow whole households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly.
James 5:3-5
Your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days!
2 Peter 2:3
They will exploit
2 Peter 2:14
They have eyes full of adultery
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so their houses are full of deceit.
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.
through unrighteousness,
his upper rooms through injustice,
who makes his fellow man serve without pay
and will not give him his wages,
they attack their own lives.
but whoever earns it through labor
but the one who hates bribes will live.
is a vanishing mist,
collects it for one who is kind to the poor.
friends of thieves.
They all love graft
and chase after bribes.
They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,
and the widow’s case never comes before them.
with dishonest scales in his hands.
this is the Lord’s declaration—
those who store up violence and destruction
in their citadels.
and do away with the poor of the land,
and prepare evil plans
At morning light
because the power is in their hands.
and the accursed short measure
in the house of the wicked?
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.
with mockery and riddles about him?
They will say:
how much longer?—
and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.
all who skip over the threshold,
who fill their master’s house
with violence and deceit.
Shall leave
to the Pit of destruction;
men of bloodshed and treachery
will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.