Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
Matthew
GospelsRighteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
Mark
GospelsThen made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
Acts
HistoryWhose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThen Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.
1 Samuel
HistoryHe that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
John
GospelsAnd he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
Judges
History / SamuelNow when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
Ezra
History / EzraThen opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra
HistoryThe wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNo man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
Acts
History / LukeWhat mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahShall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Job
Wisdom / JobFor the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.