Jeremiah 22:13

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A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

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  • Lev 19:13 : 13 Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
  • Mic 3:10 : 10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
  • Deut 24:14-15 : 14 Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land. 15 Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer! 10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul. 11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
  • 2 Kgs 23:35-37 : 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, taxing the land by his orders to get the money; the people of the land had to give silver and gold, everyone as he was taxed, to make the payment to Pharaoh-necoh. 36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 37 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.
  • 2 Chr 36:4 : 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, changing his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took his brother Jehoahaz away to Egypt.
  • Job 24:10-11 : 10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields. 11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.
  • Jer 22:18 : 18 So this is what the Lord has said about Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

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    14Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

    15Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

  • Hab 2:9-13
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    9A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

    10You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.

    11For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.

    12A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!

    13See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

  • Job 20:18-19
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    79%

    18He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

    19Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

  • Amos 5:11
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    11So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Job 27:18
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    18His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    75%

    8Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

    9The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

  • Deut 24:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

    15Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

  • Prov 24:27
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    27Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

  • Isa 3:11
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    11Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.

  • Ezek 18:12-13
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    12Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,

    13And has given out his money at interest and taken great profits: he will certainly not go on living: he has done all these disgusting things: death will certainly be his fate; his blood will be on him.

  • Hab 2:6
    72%

    6Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

  • Ezek 22:12-13
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    72%

    12In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

    13See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.

  • Prov 11:18
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    18The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Ps 127:1
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    1<A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

  • Amos 6:11
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    11For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

  • Prov 17:13
    72%

    13If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.

  • Prov 22:8
    72%

    8By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

  • Job 15:28
    72%

    28And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

  • Prov 28:8
    72%

    8He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

  • Prov 11:29
    72%

    29The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

  • Mic 2:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

    2They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

  • Prov 5:10
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    10And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

  • Lev 19:13
    72%

    13Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
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    6To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

  • Prov 22:27
    71%

    27If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • Job 20:28
    71%

    28The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

  • Eccl 5:13
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    13And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

  • Ezek 13:12
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    12And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?

  • Prov 15:27
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    27He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

  • Job 8:15
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    15He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

  • Ezek 22:29
    71%

    29The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

  • Prov 21:12
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    12The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.