Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is a slave to the lender.

James 2:6

Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

Proverbs 18:23

The poor man pleads,
but the rich one answers roughly.

One of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:4-5

Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

Proverbs 14:31

The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker,
but one who is kind to the needy honors Him.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself,
and giving to the rich—both lead only to poverty.

Proverbs 22:22

Don’t rob a poor man because he is poor,
and don’t crush the oppressed at the gate,

Isaiah 24:2

people and priest alike,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.

Amos 2:6

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Israel
for three crimes, even four,
because they sell a righteous person for silver
and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan
who are on the hill of Samaria,
women who oppress the poor
and crush the needy,
who say to their husbands,
“Bring us something to drink.”

Amos 5:11-12

Therefore, because you trample on the poor
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy
and do away with the poor of the land,

Amos 8:6

We can buy the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and even sell the chaff!”

Matthew 18:25

Since he had no way to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

James 5:4

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

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