Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Rich
The borrower
Bible References
Rich
Proverbs 22:16
He who oppresses the poor [in order] to enrich himself, [or] gives to the rich, {will come to poverty}.
Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor insults him who made him, but he who has mercy on the poor honors him.
Proverbs 18:23
The poor may speak entreaties, but the rich will answer roughly.
Amos 2:6
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals!
Amos 4:1
Hear this word, [you] cows of Bashan who [live] on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, "Bring [something] so that we may drink!"
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on [the] poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, those who trample on [the] poor and who annihilate the afflicted of [the] land,
James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?
James 5:1
Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!
The borrower
2 Kings 4:1
A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves.
Nehemiah 5:4
And there were those who were saying, "We have borrowed money on our fields and our vineyards for the tax of the king.
Isaiah 24:2
And it shall be as [with] the people, so [with] the priest; as [with] the slave, so [with] his master; as [with] the female slave, so [with] her mistress; as [with] the buyer, so [with] the seller; as [with] the lender, so [with] the borrower; as [with] the creditor, so [with] [the one] to whom he lends.
Matthew 18:25
And [because] he did not have [enough] to repay [it], the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.