Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Contempt » Saints sometimes guilty of
But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts?
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the Needy » Despised
Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength: even though the poor man's knowledge is despised, and his words are not heard.
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But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts?
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The poor is hated even of his own neighbour, but many are those who love the rich.
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All the brethren of the poor hate him; how much more shall his friends separate themselves from him? He shall seek their friendship and not find it.
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Oppression » Examples of
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have done violence unto the poor and needy; they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
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and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, making mortar and brick and in all manner of service in the field; all their service, in which they made them serve, was with rigor.
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Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.
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Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried unto Elisha, saying, Thy slave, my husband, is dead; and thou knowest that thy slave feared the LORD; and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his slaves.
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So I returned and considered all the violence that is done under the sun and behold the tears of such as are oppressed, and they have no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but the oppressed had no comforter.
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But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts?
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And the tally of the bricks which they made before, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish any of it; for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
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Then there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren, the Jews.
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For the vineyard of the LORD of the hosts is the house of Israel and every man of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
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The poor » Despised
Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength: even though the poor man's knowledge is despised, and his words are not heard.
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But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts?
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The poor is hated even of his own neighbour, but many are those who love the rich.
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All the brethren of the poor hate him; how much more shall his friends separate themselves from him? He shall seek their friendship and not find it.
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Respect of persons » Partiality
To have respect of persons in judgment is not good; even for a piece of bread, man will transgress.
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These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
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My brethren, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus, the glorious Christ, with respect of persons. For if a man with a gold ring and in precious apparel comes into your synagogue and a poor person in vile raiment also comes in, and ye have respect to him that wears the precious clothing and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there or sit here under my footstool: read more.
Are ye not then judging in yourselves and are become judges of evil thoughts? Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world that they might be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those that love him? But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts? Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which ye are called? If ye truly fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well; but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin and are accused of the law as rebels.
Are ye not then judging in yourselves and are become judges of evil thoughts? Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world that they might be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those that love him? But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts? Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which ye are called? If ye truly fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well; but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin and are accused of the law as rebels.
Riches » Often lead to » Oppression
But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts?
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