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Romans 12:19
Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written:“ Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
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Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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Romans 13:4
for it is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a servant of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.
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Zephaniah 3:5
The Lord is righteous within her; He will do no injustice. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He does not fail. But the criminal knows no shame.
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Proverbs 16:11
A just balance and scales belong to the Lord; All the weights of the bag are His concern.
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Ezekiel 22:13
“ Behold, then, I strike with My hand your profit which you have made and the bloodshed which is among you.
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Micah 2:2
They covet fields, so they seize them; And houses, so they take them. They exploit a man and his house, A person and his inheritance.
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Exodus 20:17
“ You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male slave, or his female slave, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
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Job 31:13-14
“ If I have rejected the claim of my male or female slaves When they filed a complaint against me,What then could I do when God arises? And when He calls me to account, how am I to answer Him?
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1 Samuel 12 3-1 Samuel 12 4
Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and His anointed. Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I exploited? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to close my eyes with it? I will return it to you.”And they said,“ You have not exploited us or oppressed us, or taken anything from anyone’s hand.”
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Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The oppressive city!
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Ezekiel 45:9-14
‘ This is what the Lord God says:“ Enough, you princes of Israel; get rid of violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Revoke your evictions of My people,” declares the Lord God.“ You shall have accurate balances, an accurate ephah, and an accurate bath.The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.“ This is the offering that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley;and the prescribed portion of oil( namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor( which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer);
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James 5:4
Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of armies.
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Ephesians 4:17
So I say this, and affirm in the Lord, that you are to no longer walk just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their minds,
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1 Corinthians 6 7-1 Corinthians 6 9
Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather suffer the wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?On the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud. And this to your brothers and sisters!Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,
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Mark 10:19
You know the commandments:‘ Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not give false testimony, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’ ”
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Malachi 3:5
“ Then I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, those who oppress the wage earner in his wages or the widow or the orphan, and those who turn away the stranger from justice and do not fear Me,” says the Lord of armies.
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Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
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Leviticus 19:13
‘ You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired worker are not to remain with you all night until morning.
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Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of armies is the house of Israel, And the people of Judah are His delightful plant. So He waited for justice, but behold, there was bloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.
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Deuteronomy 24:7
“ If someone is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he treats him as merchandise and sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall eliminate the evil from among you.
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Ephesians 5:6
See that no one deceives you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
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Proverbs 20:23
Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord, And a false scale is not good.
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Luke 12:5
But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed someone, has the power to throw that person into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!
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Leviticus 25:17
So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.
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2 Thessalonians 1 8
in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance is Mine, and retribution; In due time their foot will slip. For the day of their disaster is near, And the impending things are hurrying to them.’
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Proverbs 22:22-23
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, Nor crush the needy at the gate;For the Lord will plead their case And take the life of those who rob them.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight; for one official watches over another official, and there are higher officials over them.
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Proverbs 28:24
He who robs his father or his mother And says,“ There is no wrong done,” Is the companion of a person who destroys.
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James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?
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Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, But a just weight is His delight.
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Psalms 94:1
Lord, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth!
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Galatians 5:21
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Jeremiah 9:4
“ Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; Because every brother utterly betrays, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
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Leviticus 25:14
Furthermore, if you make a sale to your friend, or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.
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Jeremiah 7:6
if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your own ruin,
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Amos 8:5-6
saying,“ When will the new moon be over, So that we may sell grain; And the Sabbath, so that we may open the wheat market, To make the ephah smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat with dishonest scales,So as to buy the helpless for money, And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”
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Leviticus 19:11
‘ You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
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Psalms 140:12
I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And justice for the poor.
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Proverbs 20:14
“ Bad, bad,” says the buyer, But when he goes his way, then he boasts.
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Isaiah 59:4-7
No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies; They conceive trouble and give birth to disaster.They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; The one who eats of their eggs dies, And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of wrongdoing, And an act of violence is in their hands.Their feet run to evil, And they hurry to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of wrongdoing, Devastation and destruction are in their paths.
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Ephesians 4:28
The one who steals must no longer steal; but rather he must labor, producing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with the one who has need.
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16
“ You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.You shall have a correct and honest weight; you shall have a correct and honest measure, so that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God.
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Isaiah 1:23-24
Your rulers are rebels And companions of thieves; Everyone loves a bribe And chases after gifts. They do not obtain justice for the orphan, Nor does the widow’s case come before them.Therefore the Lord God of armies, The Mighty One of Israel, declares,“ Ah, I will have satisfaction against My adversaries, And avenge Myself on My enemies.
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Exodus 20:15
“ You shall not steal.