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Romans 12:19
Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for His wrath. For it is written: Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay, says the Lord.
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Hebrews 13:4
Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.
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Romans 13:4
For government is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For government is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.
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Zephaniah 3:5
The righteous Lord is in her; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the one who does wrong knows no shame.
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Proverbs 16:11
Honest balances and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
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Ezekiel 22:13
“ Now look, I clap My hands together against the dishonest profit you have made and against the blood shed among you.
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Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.
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Exodus 20:17
Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
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Job 31:13-14
If I have dismissed the case of my male or female servants when they made a complaint against me,what could I do when God stands up to judge? How should I answer Him when He calls me to account?
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1 Samuel 12 3-1 Samuel 12 4
Here I am. Bring charges against me before the Lord and His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged or mistreated? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to overlook something? I will return it to you.”“ You haven’t wronged us, you haven’t mistreated us, and you haven’t taken anything from anyone’s hand,” they responded.
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Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to the city that is rebellious and defiled, the oppressive city!
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Ezekiel 45:9-14
“ This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far, princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of My people.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.“ You must have honest scales, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure.The dry measure and the liquid measure will be uniform, with the liquid measure containing 5 1/2 gallons and the dry measure holding half a bushel. Their measurement will be a tenth of the standard larger capacity measure.The shekel will weigh 20 gerahs. Your mina will equal 60 shekels.“ This is the contribution you are to offer: Three quarts from five bushels of wheat and three quarts from five bushels of barley.The quota of oil in liquid measures will be one percent of every cor. The cor equals 10 liquid measures or one standard larger capacity measure, since 10 liquid measures equal one standard larger capacity measure.
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James 5:4
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
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Ephesians 4:17
Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.
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1 Corinthians 6 7-1 Corinthians 6 9
Therefore, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moral failure for you. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather be cheated?Instead, you act unjustly and cheat— and you do this to believers!Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,
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Mark 10:19
You know the commandments: Do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness; do not defraud; honor your father and mother.”
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Malachi 3:5
“ I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, and cheat the wage earner; and against those who deny justice to the foreigner. They do not fear Me,” says the Lord of Hosts.
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Romans 1:18
For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,
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Leviticus 19:13
“ You must not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired hand must not remain with you until morning.
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Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah, the plant He delighted in. He looked for justice but saw injustice, for righteousness, but heard cries of wretchedness.
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Deuteronomy 24:7
“ If a man is discovered kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you.
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Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.
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Proverbs 20:23
Differing weights are detestable to the Lord, and dishonest scales are unfair.
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Luke 12:5
But I will show you the One to fear: Fear Him who has authority to throw people into hell after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the One to fear!
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Leviticus 25:17
You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am Yahweh your God.
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2 Thessalonians 1 8
taking vengeance with flaming fire on those who don’t know God and on those who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay. In time their foot will slip, for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
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Proverbs 22:22-23
Don’t rob a poor man because he is poor, and don’t crush the oppressed at the gate,for the Lord will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.
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Proverbs 28:24
The one who robs his father or mother and says,“ That’s no sin,” is a companion to a man who destroys.
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James 2:6
Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?
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Proverbs 11:1
Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord, but an accurate weight is His delight.
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Psalms 94:1
Lord, God of vengeance— God of vengeance, appear.
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Galatians 5:21
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance— as I told you before— that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Jeremiah 9:4
Everyone has to be on guard against his friend. Don’t trust any brother, for every brother will certainly deceive, and every friend spread slander.
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Leviticus 25:14
If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat one another.
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Jeremiah 7:6
if you no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,
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Amos 8:5-6
asking,“ When will the New Moon be over so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so we may market wheat? We can reduce the measure while increasing the price and cheat with dishonest scales.We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”
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Leviticus 19:11
“ You must not steal. You must not act deceptively or lie to one another.
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Psalms 140:12
I know that the Lord upholds the just cause of the poor, justice for the needy.
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Proverbs 20:14
“ It’s worthless, it’s worthless!” the buyer says, but after he is on his way, he gloats.
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Isaiah 59:4-7
No one makes claims justly; no one pleads honestly. They trust in empty and worthless words; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.They hatch viper’s eggs and weave spider’s webs. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works are sinful works, and violent acts are in their hands.Their feet run after evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.
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Ephesians 4:28
The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16
“ You must not have two different weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.You must not have two differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the Lord your God.
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Isaiah 1:23-24
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.Therefore the Lord God of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares:“ Ah, I will gain satisfaction from My foes; I will take revenge against My enemies.
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Exodus 20:15
Do not steal.