Proverbs 22:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

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  • Prov 18:23 : 23 The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.
  • Jas 2:6 : 6 But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and haul you into the courts?
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
  • 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD: and the creditor has come to take my two sons to be slaves.
  • Neh 5:4-5 : 4 There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.
  • Prov 22:22 : 22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
  • Isa 24:2 : 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
  • Amos 2:6 : 6 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes:
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, 'Bring, and let us drink.'
  • Amos 5:11-12 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,
  • Amos 8:6 : 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
  • Matt 18:25 : 25 But as he was not able to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 22:16
    79%

    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Prov 19:17
    76%

    17He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, and that which he has given will He pay him again.

  • Prov 22:8
    75%

    8He who sows iniquity shall reap vanity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.

  • Exod 22:25
    75%

    25If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

  • Isa 24:2
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    2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

  • 1 Sam 2:7-8
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    7The LORD makes poor and makes rich: he brings low and lifts up.

    8He raises up the poor from the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ashes, to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.

  • Deut 15:6
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    6For the LORD your God blesses you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

  • Prov 13:7-8
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    74%

    7There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; there is one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

    8The ransom of a man's life are his riches, but the poor hears not rebuke.

  • Prov 22:2
    74%

    2The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

  • Ps 37:21-22
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    21The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous show mercy and give.

    22For those blessed by him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Prov 22:6
    74%

    6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Deut 28:44
    73%

    44He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

  • Prov 18:23
    73%

    23The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

  • Prov 14:31
    73%

    31He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.

  • Prov 28:15-16
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    72%

    15As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over poor people.

    16The prince who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, but he who hates covetousness shall prolong his days.

  • Prov 28:3
    72%

    3A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor who has understanding searches him out.

  • Prov 10:15
    72%

    15The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

  • Lam 5:8
    72%

    8Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

  • Prov 12:24
    71%

    24The hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy will be put to forced labor.

  • Prov 28:6
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    6Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

  • Prov 29:21
    71%

    21He who delicately brings up his servant from childhood shall have him as a son in the end.

  • Prov 17:2
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    2A wise servant will rule over a son who causes shame, and will share the inheritance among the brethren.

  • Deut 28:12
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    12The LORD shall open unto you His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend unto many nations, and you shall not borrow.

  • Prov 22:26-27
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    71%

    26Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

    27If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Prov 28:22
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    22He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

  • Matt 24:47
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    47Truly I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods.

  • Isa 3:5-6
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    5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable.

    6When a man shall take hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:

  • Prov 14:20
    70%

    20The poor is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich have many friends.

  • Prov 10:4
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    4He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

  • Prov 10:22
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    22The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.

  • Ps 37:26
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    26He is ever merciful, and lends, and his descendants are blessed.

  • Eccl 10:7
    69%

    7I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

  • Ps 41:1
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    1Blessed is he who considers the poor; the LORD will deliver him in times of trouble.

  • Prov 13:22-23
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    69%

    22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

    23Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • Lev 25:43
    69%

    43You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God.

  • Lev 25:53
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    53And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.

  • Lev 25:37
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    37You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.

  • Prov 28:27
    69%

    27He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

  • Deut 24:12
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    12And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

  • Eccl 5:13
    69%

    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners to their hurt.

  • Prov 22:22
    69%

    22Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;