Bible Cross References
the rich
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise wickedness and do evil on their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 2:2
And they covet and seize fields and houses, and carry them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.
Micah 3:1-3
1
And I said, Hear now, O heads of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know justice.
2
You who hate good and love evil, who tear their skin off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3
who also eat the flesh of My people, and flay their skin off from them; and they break their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh in the kettle.
Micah 3:9-11
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Now hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, you who abhor justice and pervert all equity,
10
who build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity:
11
Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for money; yet they lean on Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come upon us.
Micah 7:2-6
2
The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.
3
Both hands are on evil, to do it well. Both the ruler and the judge ask for a bribe. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; and they weave it together.
4
The best of them is like a thorn; the upright more than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchman and your punishment comes; now shall be their perplexity.
5
Put no faith in a companion; put no trust in a friend; keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;
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for the son dishonors the father; the daughter rises up against her mother; the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe, and pursues rewards. They do not judge for the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold an outcry!
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of Jehovah and the judgment of their God. But these have broken the yoke together and have torn off the bonds!
Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, and a wolf of the deserts shall destroy them; a leopard shall watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings are increased.
Jeremiah 5:26-29
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For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.
28
They have grown fat, they gleam. Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; they do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.
29
Shall I not punish for these things? says Jehovah. Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 6:6
For thus has Jehovah of Hosts said, Cut down trees and cast a mound against Jerusalem! This is the city to be punished; she is full of oppression in her midst.
Jeremiah 6:7
As a fountain keeps fresh its waters, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and devastation is heard in her; before Me continually are sickness and wounds.
Ezekiel 22:6-13
6
Behold, the rulers of Israel: each one was in you by his power to shed blood in you.
7
In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the sojourner; in you they have mistreated the orphan and the widow.
8
You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
9
In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.
10
In you men uncover the nakedness of their fathers; in you they humble women during their menstrual impurity.
11
One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you humbles his sister, his father's daughter.
12
In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.
13
Behold, therefore, I have clapped My hands at the unjust gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.
Ezekiel 22:25-29
25
The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
26
Her priests have violated My Law and defiled My holy things; they have not divided between the holy and profane, nor have they declared between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
27
Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, and to get dishonest gain.
28
Her prophets plastered them with whitewash, seeing vain visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah has not spoken.
29
The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the sojourner.
Hosea 4:1
Hear the Word of Jehovah, you sons of Israel, for Jehovah has a complaint against the inhabitants of the land; for there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 4:2
Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery burst forth. And blood touches against blood.
Amos 5:11
So, therefore because you trample on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of hewn stones, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.
Amos 5:12
For I know your many transgressions, and your many sins: afflicting the just, taking bribes, and thrusting away the poor from justice in the gate.
Amos 6:1-3
1
Woe to those at ease in Zion, and those trusting in the mountain of Samaria, noted as chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came.
2
Cross over to Calneh and see; and from there go to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms, or their border than your border?
3
You who put the evil day far away, and cause the seat of violence to come near,
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that do not leave the bones till the morning.
spoken
Isaiah 59:3-15
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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has uttered perverseness.
4
No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
5
They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6
Their webs shall not become garments, nor shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.
8
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.
9
Therefore justice is far from us; nor does righteousness overtake us. We wait for daylight, but behold, the night; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men.
11
We all roar like bears, and mourn with moaning like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12
For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13
in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and backsliding from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14
And justice is driven back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
15
Yea, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.
4
Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant and assail his neighbor, and will walk with slanderers.
5
And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6
Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:8-6
Hosea 7:1
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they have dealt falsely; and a thief comes; a troop of robbers plunders outside.
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them! For they have fled from Me. Ruin to them! For they have transgressed against Me. Though I redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.
Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;