He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.


Most similar verses

Location Verse
Genesis 27 29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Exodus 22 14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
Exodus 23 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Exodus 23 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Exodus 23 9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 30 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Leviticus 19 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Leviticus 24 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
Leviticus 25 14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
Leviticus 25 17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 25 47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
Deuteronomy 5 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Deuteronomy 7 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
Deuteronomy 15 7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Deuteronomy 15 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Deuteronomy 24 14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
Deuteronomy 24 15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
1 Samuel 2 7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
2 Samuel 22 26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
2 Samuel 22 28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
2 Samuel 22 48 It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me.
Job 4 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 5 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job 5 15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5 17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Job 10 3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 12 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Job 14 21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Job 20 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Job 24 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job 24 21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Job 27 7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Job 27 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Job 31 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job 34 19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
Job 35 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Job 35 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job 36 6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
Job 36 15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Job 40 12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
Psalms 9 9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
Psalms 9 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalms 10 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 10 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
Psalms 10 10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms 10 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 11 5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Psalms 12 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Psalms 14 6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Psalms 15 4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.