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Romans 12:19
Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written:“ It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. (niv)
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Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. (niv)
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Romans 13:4
For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. (niv)
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Zephaniah 3:5
The Lord within her is righteous; he does no wrong. Morning by morning he dispenses his justice, and every new day he does not fail, yet the unrighteous know no shame. (niv)
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Proverbs 16:11
Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord; all the weights in the bag are of his making. (niv)
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Ezekiel 22:13
“‘ I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst. (niv)
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Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance. (niv)
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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 or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” (niv)
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Job 31:13-14
“ If I have denied justice to any of my servants, whether male or female, when they had a grievance against me,what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account? (niv)
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1 Samuel 12 3-1 Samuel 12 4
Here I stand. Testify against me in the presence of the Lord and his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe to make me shut my eyes? If I have done any of these things, I will make it right.”“ You have not cheated or oppressed us,” they replied.“ You have not taken anything from anyone’s hand.” (niv)
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Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled! (niv)
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Ezekiel 45:9-14
“‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.You are to use accurate scales, an accurate ephah and an accurate bath.The ephah and the bath are to be the same size, the bath containing a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard measure for both.The shekel is to consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.“‘ This is the special gift you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.The prescribed portion of olive oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor( which consists of ten baths or one homer, for ten baths are equivalent to a homer). (niv)
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James 5:4
Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. (niv)
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Ephesians 4:17
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. (niv)
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1 Corinthians 6 7-1 Corinthians 6 9
The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters.Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men (niv)
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Mark 10:19
You know the commandments:‘ You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.’” (niv)
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Malachi 3:5
“ So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty. (niv)
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Romans 1:18
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, (niv)
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Leviticus 19:13
“‘ Do not defraud or rob your neighbor.“‘ Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight. (niv)
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Isaiah 5:7
The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 24:7
If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you. (niv)
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Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. (niv)
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Proverbs 20:23
The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him. (niv)
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Luke 12:5
But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. (niv)
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Leviticus 25:17
Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the Lord your God. (niv)
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2 Thessalonians 1 8
He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 32:35
It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.” (niv)
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Proverbs 22:22-23
Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,for the Lord will take up their case and will exact life for life. (niv)
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still. (niv)
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Proverbs 28:24
Whoever robs their father or mother and says,“ It’s not wrong,” is partner to one who destroys. (niv)
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James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? (niv)
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Proverbs 11:1
The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him. (niv)
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Psalms 94:1
The Lord is a God who avenges. O God who avenges, shine forth. (niv)
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Galatians 5:21
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (niv)
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Jeremiah 9:4
“ Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer. (niv)
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Leviticus 25:14
“‘ If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other. (niv)
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Jeremiah 7:6
if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, (niv)
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Amos 8:5-6
saying,“ When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?”— skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat. (niv)
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Leviticus 19:11
“‘ Do not steal.“‘ Do not lie.“‘ Do not deceive one another. (niv)
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Psalms 140:12
I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy. (niv)
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Proverbs 20:14
“ It’s no good, it’s no good!” says the buyer— then goes off and boasts about the purchase. (niv)
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Isaiah 59:4-7
No one calls for justice; no one pleads a case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.Their cobwebs are useless for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are evil deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways. (niv)
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Ephesians 4:28
Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16
Do not have two differing weights in your bag— one heavy, one light.Do not have two differing measures in your house— one large, one small.You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.For the Lord your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly. (niv)
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Isaiah 1:23-24
Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares:“ Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies. (niv)
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Exodus 20:15
“ You shall not steal. (niv)