Amos 5:12
"For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right."
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- Amos 2:6
"Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;"
Read in chapter → - Amos 5:10
"They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 1:23
"Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them."
Read in chapter → - Malachi 3:5
"And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 26:9
"Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:"
Read in chapter → - James 5:4
"Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth."
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 8:3
"And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment."
Read in chapter → - Acts 7:52
"Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:"
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 29:23
"Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD."
Read in chapter → - Amos 2:16
"And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD."
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