Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
Psalms
PoetryHow fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThe land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Leviticus
LawThis is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Psalms
PoetryO come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
Psalms
PoetryIf ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John
Gospels / JohnFor 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.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosNo doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Job
WisdomSo then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Judges
HistoryBut of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
Exodus
Law / MosesI said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
Genesis
LawBut if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.