Bible Cross References
Let it
Ezekiel 44:6
"Tell those rebellious people of Israel that I, the Sovereign LORD, will no longer tolerate the disgusting things that they have been doing.
1 Peter 4:3
You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.
remove
Nehemiah 5:10
I have let the people borrow money and grain from me, and so have my companions and those who work for me. Now let's give up all our claims to repayment.
Psalm 82:2-5
2
"You must stop judging unjustly; you must no longer be partial to the wicked!
3
Defend the rights of the poor and the orphans; be fair to the needy and the helpless.
4
Rescue them from the power of evil people.
5
"How ignorant you are! How stupid! You are completely corrupt, and justice has disappeared from the world.
Isaiah 1:17
and learn to do right. See that justice is done---help those who are oppressed, give orphans their rights, and defend widows."
Jeremiah 22:3
"I, the LORD, command you to do what is just and right. Protect the person who is being cheated from the one who is cheating him. Do not mistreat or oppress aliens, orphans, or widows; and do not kill innocent people in this holy place.
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things you should do: Speak the truth to one another. In the courts give real justice---the kind that brings peace.
Luke 3:14
Some soldiers also asked him, "What about us? What are we to do?" He said to them, "Don't take money from anyone by force or accuse anyone falsely. Be content with your pay."
execute
Ezekiel 43:14-16
14
The lowest section of the altar, from the top of the base, was 4 feet high. The next section was set back from the edge 20 inches all around, and was 7 feet high. The section after that was also set back from the edge 20 inches all around.
15
This top section, on which the sacrifices were burned, was also 7 feet high. The projections on the four corners were higher than the rest of the top.
16
The top of the altar was a square, 20 feet on each side.
take away
Nehemiah 5:1-13
1
Some time later many of the people, both men and women, began to complain against the other Jews.
2
Some said, "We have large families, we need grain to keep us alive."
3
Others said, "We have had to mortgage our fields and vineyards and houses to get enough grain to keep us from starving."
4
Still others said, "We had to borrow money to pay the royal tax on our fields and vineyards.
5
We are of the same race as the other Jews. Aren't our children just as good as theirs? But we have to make slaves of our children. Some of our daughters have already been sold as slaves. We are helpless because our fields and vineyards have been taken away from us."
6
When I heard their complaints, I grew angry
7
and decided to act. I denounced the leaders and officials of the people and told them, "You are oppressing your own relatives!" I called a public assembly to deal with the problem
8
and said, "As far as we have been able, we have been buying back our Jewish relatives who had to sell themselves to foreigners. Now you are forcing your own relatives to sell themselves to you, their own people!" The leaders were silent and could find nothing to say.
9
Then I said, "What you are doing is wrong! You ought to obey God and do what's right. Then you would not give our enemies, the Gentiles, any reason to ridicule us.
10
I have let the people borrow money and grain from me, and so have my companions and those who work for me. Now let's give up all our claims to repayment.
11
Cancel all the debts they owe you---money or grain or wine or olive oil. And give them back their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses right now!"
12
The leaders replied, "We'll do as you say. We'll give the property back and not try to collect the debts." I called in the priests and made the leaders swear in front of them to keep the promise they had just made.
13
Then I took off the sash I was wearing around my waist and shook it out. "This is how God will shake any of you who don't keep your promise," I said. "God will take away your houses and everything you own, and will leave you with nothing." Everyone who was present said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD. And the leaders kept their promise.
1 Corinthians 6:7
The very fact that you have legal disputes among yourselves shows that you have failed completely. Would it not be better for you to be wronged? Would it not be better for you to be robbed?
1 Corinthians 6:8
Instead, you yourselves wrong one another and rob one another, even other believers!
exactions
Job 20:19
because they oppressed and neglected the poor and seized houses someone else had built.
Job 22:9
You not only refused to help widows, but you also robbed and mistreated orphans.
Job 24:2-12
2
People move property lines to get more land; they steal sheep and put them with their own flocks.
3
They take donkeys that belong to orphans, and keep a widow's ox till she pays her debts.
4
They prevent the poor from getting their rights and force the needy to run and hide.
5
So the poor, like wild donkeys, search for food in the dry wilderness; nowhere else can they find food for their children.
6
They have to harvest fields they don't own, and gather grapes in vineyards of the wicked.
7
At night they sleep with nothing to cover them, nothing to keep them from the cold.
8
They are drenched by the rain that falls on the mountains, and they huddle beside the rocks for shelter.
9
Evil people make slaves of fatherless infants and take the children of the poor in payment for debts.
10
But the poor must go out with no clothes to protect them; they must go hungry while harvesting wheat.
11
They press olives for oil, and grapes for wine, but they themselves are thirsty.
12
In the cities the wounded and dying cry out, but God ignores their prayers.
Micah 2:1
How terrible it will be for those who lie awake and plan evil! When morning comes, as soon as they have the chance, they do the evil they planned.
Micah 2:2
When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.
Micah 2:9
You drive the women of my people out of the homes they love, and you have robbed their children of my blessings forever.