Proverbs 22:7

Proverbs Of Solomon

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it. ⁷ The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender. ⁸ He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

Rule Over

James 2:6

But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?

Proverbs 18:23

The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.

2 Kings 4:1

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.

Nehemiah 5:4-5

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.

Proverbs 14:31

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; But he that hath mercy on the needy honoreth him.

Proverbs 22:16

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain , And he that giveth to the rich,'shall come only to want.

Proverbs 22:22

Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

Amos 2:6

Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes-

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 5:11-12

Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Amos 8:6

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Matthew 18:25

But forasmuch as he had not wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

James 5:1

Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.