James 2:6
"But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?"
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- Proverbs 17:5
"Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 14:31
"He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 11:22
"What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 14:6
"Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge."
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 → - Acts 13:50
"But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 9:15
"Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 5:8
"If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they."
Read in chapter → - Acts 8:3
"As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison."
Read in chapter → - Amos 5:11
"Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them."
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