Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
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Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
Numbers
Law / MosesThey were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
Job
WisdomIf ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOr what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
Mark
GospelsThe ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew
GospelsHe brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
Deuteronomy
LawBehold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matthew
GospelsO God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
Mark
GospelsNor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Hebrews
General EpistlesThen said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSo she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
1 Kings
HistoryHe that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
John
Gospels / JohnThen Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,