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Bible Verses About Oppression

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  1. And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

  2. Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:

  3. All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

  4. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

  5. And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

  6. But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

  7. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

  8. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

  9. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

  10. ¶ Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

  11. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.