20 Bible Verses about Abuse Of Authority, Warnings Against

And ye masters, do even the same things unto them, putting away threatenings: and remember that even your master also is in heaven, neither is there any respect of person with him.

See therefore that thou reign not over him cruelly, but fear thy God.

Thou shalt not defraud a hired servant that is needy and poor, whether he be of thy brethren or a stranger that is in thy land within thy cities.

And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter unto them.

see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind. Not as though ye were lords over the parishes: but that ye be an example to the flock.

Vex not a stranger, neither oppress him, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for I know the heart of a stranger, because ye were strangers in Egypt.

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, "Ye know that the Lords of the gentiles have domination over them. And they that are great exercise power over them. It shall not be so among you: But whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister, and whosoever will be chief, let him be your servant.

But Jesus called them unto him, and said to them, "Ye know well that they which seem to bear rule among the gentiles, reign as Lords over them. And they that be great among them exercise authority over them. So shall it not be among you: but whosoever of you will be great among you, shall be your minister. And whosoever will be chief, shall be servant unto all.

And he said unto them, "The kings of the gentiles reign over them; And they that bear rule over them, are called gracious Lords. But ye shall not be so. But he that is greatest among you, shall be as the youngest: And he that is chief, shall be as the minister.

Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:

See that thou rob not the poor because he is weak, and oppress not the simple in judgment;

The people in the land useth wicked extortion and robbery. They vex the poor and needy and oppress the stranger against right.

Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."

Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"

They corrupt others, and speak blasphemies maliciously; proud and presumptuous are their words.

O deliver me from the wrongful dealings of men; and so shall I keep thy commandments.

In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.