Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
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James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

Proverbs 18:23
The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.

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Proverbs 22:16, 22
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself, or giving gifts to the rich, will surely lead to poverty. . . .

Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

Proverbs 18:23
The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.

Amos 2:6
This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.

Amos 4:1
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, "Bring us more to drink."

Amos 5:11, 12
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. . . .

Amos 8:4, 6
Hear this, you who trample on the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, . . .

James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

James 5:1, 4
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail for the misery to come upon you. . . .

the borrower

2 Kings 4:1
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!"

Nehemiah 5:4, 5
Still others were saying, "We have borrowed money to pay the king's tax on our fields and vineyards. . . .

Isaiah 24:2
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Matthew 18:25
Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.

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