Proverbs 22:7 Cross References

Proverbs 22:7

7: Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the lender.

Proverbs 18:23

  1. The poor plead for mercy; the rich answer with insults.

Proverbs 22:16

  1. A person who gets ahead by oppressing the poor or by showering gifts on the rich will end in poverty.

James 2:6

  1. And yet, you insult the poor man! Isn't it the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

Proverbs 22:22

  1. Do not rob the poor because they are poor or exploit the needy in court.

Proverbs 14:31

  1. Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who help the poor honor him.

2 Kings 4:1

  1. One day the widow of one of Elisha's fellow prophets came to Elisha and cried out to him, "My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the LORD. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves."

Matthew 18:25

  1. He couldn't pay, so the king ordered that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

Nehemiah 5:4

  1. And others said, "We have already borrowed to the limit on our fields and vineyards to pay our taxes.
  2. We belong to the same family, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others."

James 5:1

  1. Look here, you rich people, weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you.

Amos 4:1

  1. Listen to me, you "fat cows" of Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and who are always asking your husbands for another drink!

Amos 8:4

  1. Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample the needy!

Isaiah 24:2

  1. Priests and laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers and debtors--none will be spared.

Amos 2:6

  1. This is what the LORD says: "The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and I will not forget it. I will not let them go unpunished any longer! They have perverted justice by selling honest people for silver and poor people for a pair of sandals.

Amos 8:6

  1. And you mix the wheat you sell with chaff swept from the floor! Then you enslave poor people for a debt of one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

Amos 5:11

  1. You trample the poor and steal what little they have through taxes and unfair rent. Therefore, you will never live in the beautiful stone houses you are building. You will never drink wine from the lush vineyards you are planting.
  2. For I know the vast number of your sins and rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

James 5:4

  1. For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
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