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James 5:4
Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
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Malachi 3:5
And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien— Because they do not fear Me,” Says the Lord of hosts.
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Deuteronomy 24:14-15
“ You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates.Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.
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Proverbs 20:10
Diverse weights and diverse measures, They are both alike, an abomination to the Lord.
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Job 31:39
If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or caused its owners to lose their lives;
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Jeremiah 22:3
Thus says the Lord:“ Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
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Mark 10:19
You know the commandments:‘ Do not commit adultery,’‘ Do not murder,’‘ Do not steal,’‘ Do not bear false witness,’‘ Do not defraud,’‘ Honor your father and your mother.’”
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Exodus 22:24-27
and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.“ If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.If you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am gracious.
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Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger.
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Exodus 22:8-9
If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor’s goods.“ For any kind of trespass, whether it concerns an ox, a donkey, a sheep, or clothing, or for any kind of lost thing which another claims to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whomever the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.
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Jeremiah 22:13
“ Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness And his chambers by injustice, Who uses his neighbor’s service without wages And gives him nothing for his work,
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Proverbs 22:22
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;
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Leviticus 6:3
or if he has found what was lost and lies concerning it, and swears falsely— in any one of these things that a man may do in which he sins:
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1 Thessalonians 4 6
that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.
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Exodus 22:15
If its owner was with it, he shall not make it good; if it was hired, it came for its hire.
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Exodus 22:13
If it is torn to pieces by a beast, then he shall bring it as evidence, and he shall not make good what was torn.
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Exodus 22:21
“ You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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Luke 3:13
And he said to them,“ Collect no more than what is appointed for you.”