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Malachi 3:5
“ I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the LORD who rules over all.
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Proverbs 14:31
The one who oppresses the poor insults his Creator, but whoever shows favor to the needy honors him.
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Proverbs 22:16
The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.
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Amos 4:1
Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“ Bring us more to drink!”
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Amos 2:7
They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.
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Job 31:13-15
“ If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
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Job 24:10-11
They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.
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Leviticus 25:35-43
“‘ If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan– to be your God.“‘ If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.
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Deuteronomy 15:12-18
If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.However, if the servant says to you,“ I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently( this applies to your female servant as well).You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.
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Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.
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Amos 8:4
Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
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Luke 10:7
Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.