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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.
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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.
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Deuteronomy 24:14-15
Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
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Proverbs 20:10
Differing weights and differing measures— the Lord detests them both.
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Job 31:39
if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
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Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
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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.’”
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Exodus 22:24-27
My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.“ If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
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Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.
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Exodus 22:8-9
But if the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges, and they must determine whether the owner of the house has laid hands on the other person’s property.In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any other lost property about which somebody says,‘ This is mine,’ both parties are to bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges declare guilty must pay back double to the other.
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Jeremiah 22:13
“ Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, his upper rooms by injustice, making his own people work for nothing, not paying them for their labor.
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Proverbs 22:22
Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,
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Leviticus 6:3
or if they find lost property and lie about it, or if they swear falsely about any such sin that people may commit—
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1 Thessalonians 4 6
and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before.
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Exodus 22:15
But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for the hire covers the loss.
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Exodus 22:13
If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the neighbor shall bring in the remains as evidence and shall not be required to pay for the torn animal.
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Exodus 22:21
“ Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
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Luke 3:13
“ Don’t collect any more than you are required to,” he told them.