Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow. Do not oppress the fatherless. Do not oppress the stranger and do not oppress the poor. And you should not devise evil in your heart against your brother.
Psalm 21:11
Even though they scheme and devise evil against you, they will not succeed.
Psalm 72:4
He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels, friends with thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They never defend orphans. They do not listen to the widows' pleas.
Jeremiah 5:28
They grow big and fat. Their evil deeds have no limits. They have no respect for the rights of others. They have no respect for the rights of orphans. But they still prosper. They do not defend the rights of the poor.
Exodus 22:21-24
Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.
Exodus 23:9
Do not mistreat a foreigner. You know how it feels to be a foreigner. After all you were foreigners in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24:14-18
Do not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is he who withholds justice due an alien, orphan, and widow. The people all say: Amen.
Psalm 36:4
He plans wickedness upon his bed. He walks on a path that is not good. He does not despise evil.
Psalm 140:2
They plan evil things in their hearts. They start conflicts (fights) (wars) every day.
Proverbs 3:29
Do not plan anything that will hurt your neighbors. They live beside you, trusting you.
Proverbs 6:18
A heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run quickly to badness,
Proverbs 22:22-23
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate.
Proverbs 23:10-11
Do not remove the old landmark (boundry). And do not enter the field of the fatherless.
Isaiah 1:16-17
Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.
Jeremiah 11:19-20
I was like an unquestioning lamb brought to the slaughter. I did not know that they were plotting against me. They were saying: Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut Jeremiah off from this world of the living so that we will not be reminded of him anymore.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said: Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise man, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike him with our tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words.
Jeremiah 22:15-17
Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Ezekiel 22:7
People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.'
Ezekiel 22:12
Some of your people murder for pay. Some charge interest on the loans they make to other Israelites and get rich by taking advantage of them. They have forgotten me. The Lord Jehovah has spoken.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.'
Amos 4:1
Hear this word you cows of Bashan who live on the mountain of Samaria. You oppress the poor. You crush the needy. You say to your masters (husbands) (lords), Bring us drink.
Amos 5:11-12
You impose unfair rent on the poor and defraud a tribute of grain from them. You haave built houses of hewn stone yet you will not live in them. You planted pleasant vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them.
Micah 2:1-3
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to (it is in the power of their hands).
Micah 3:1-4
I said: Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not your responsibility to know justice?
Zephaniah 3:1-3
Woe to the oppressive city for she is rebellious and polluted (defiled)!
Zechariah 8:17
Let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor. Do not love a false oath (perjury): for all these are things that I hate, said Jehovah.
Malachi 3:5
I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.
Matthew 23:13
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You close the kingdom of heaven to people. You do not invite others to enter nor do you enter.
Mark 7:21-23
It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
1 Corinthians 6:10
nor thieves, nor covetous (greedy), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God.
James 1:14-15
Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his evil desire (lust). He is enticed (allured).
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.
1 John 3:15
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer! You know that no murderer has everlasting life remaining in him.