Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Contempt » Saints sometimes guilty of
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
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the Needy » Despised
Then I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
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The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.
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All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
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Oppression » Examples of
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
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and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
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Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
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Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."
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Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
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But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
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The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'
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Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
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For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
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The poor » Despised
Then I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
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The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.
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All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
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Respect of persons » Partiality
To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
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These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.
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My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in; and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;" read more.
haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well. But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well. But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Riches » Often lead to » Oppression
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
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