Isaiah 58:6 Cross References

Isaiah 58:6

6: "No, the kind of fasting I want calls you to free those who are wrongly imprisoned and to stop oppressing those who work for you. Treat them fairly and give them what they earn.

Nehemiah 5:10

  1. I myself, as well as my brothers and my workers, have been lending the people money and grain, but now let us stop this business of loans.
  2. You must restore their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and homes to them this very day. Repay the interest you charged on their money, grain, wine, and olive oil."
  3. Then they replied, "We will give back everything and demand nothing more from the people. We will do as you say." Then I called the priests and made the nobles and officials formally vow to do what they had promised.

Isaiah 58:9

  1. Then when you call, the LORD will answer. `Yes, I am here,' he will quickly reply. "Stop oppressing the helpless and stop making false accusations and spreading vicious rumors!

Jeremiah 34:8

  1. This message came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah made a covenant with the people, proclaiming freedom for the slaves.
  2. He had ordered all the people to free their Hebrew slaves--both men and women. No one was to keep a fellow Judean in bondage.
  3. The officials and all the people had obeyed the king's command,
  4. but later they changed their minds. They took back the people they had freed, making them slaves again.

1 Timothy 6:1

  1. Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed.

Micah 3:2

  1. but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
  2. You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.
  3. Then you beg the LORD for help in times of trouble! Do you really expect him to listen? After all the evil you have done, he won't even look at you!
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