Jeremiah 7:6

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Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.

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  • Deut 8:19 : 19 Now if you forget the LORD your God at all and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.
  • Jer 13:10 : 10 These wicked people refuse to obey what I have said. They follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts and pay allegiance to other gods by worshiping and serving them. So they will become just like these linen shorts which are good for nothing.
  • Jer 2:34 : 34 Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. Yet, in spite of all these things you have done,
  • Exod 22:21-24 : 21 “You must not wrong a resident foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. 22 “You must not afflict any widow or orphan. 23 If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry, 24 and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
  • Deut 6:14-15 : 14 You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples, 15 for the LORD your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.
  • Deut 11:28 : 28 and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.
  • Deut 24:17 : 17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 ‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
  • 2 Kgs 21:6 : 6 He passed his son through the fire and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the LORD was unwilling to forgive them.
  • Job 31:13-22 : 13 “If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me, 14 then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him? 15 Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb? 16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans– 18 but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow! 19 If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat, 20 whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep, 21 if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court, 22 then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket.
  • Ps 82:3-4 : 3 Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering! 4 Rescue the poor and needy! Deliver them from the power of the wicked!
  • Ps 106:38 : 38 They shed innocent blood– the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 “It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.”
  • Jer 19:4 : 4 I will do so because these people have rejected me and have defiled this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.
  • Jer 22:3-4 : 3 The LORD says,“Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. Do not kill innocent people in this land. 4 If you are careful to obey these commands, then the kings who follow in David’s succession and ride in chariots or on horses will continue to come through the gates of this palace, as will their officials and their subjects.
  • Jer 22:15-17 : 15 Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him. 16 He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ The LORD says,‘That is a good example of what it means to know me.’ 17 But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.
  • Jer 26:15 : 15 But you should take careful note of this: If you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves and this city and those who live in it the guilt of murdering an innocent man. For the LORD has sent me to speak all this where you can hear it. That is the truth!”
  • Jer 26:23 : 23 and they brought Uriah back from there. They took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him executed and had his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.
  • Lam 4:13 : 13 מ(Mem) But it happened due to the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.
  • Ezek 18:6 : 6 does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period,
  • Ezek 22:3-6 : 3 Then say,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O city, who spills blood within herself(which brings on her doom), and who makes herself idols(which results in impurity), 4 you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands. 5 Those both near and far from you will mock you, you with your bad reputation, full of turmoil. 6 “‘See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood.
  • Zech 7:9-9 : 9 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies said,‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other. 10 You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the resident foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow citizen.’ 11 “But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear. 12 Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had poured out great wrath.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 “I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the resident foreigner and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Matt 23:35-37 : 35 so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 I tell you the truth, this generation will be held responsible for all these things! 37 Judgment on Israel“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
  • Matt 27:4 : 4 saying,“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said,“What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”
  • Matt 27:25 : 25 In reply all the people said,“Let his blood be on us and on our children!”
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • Jer 7:5 : 5 You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.

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  • Zech 7:9-10
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    9“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies said,‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.

    10You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the resident foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow citizen.’

  • Jer 22:3
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    3The LORD says,“Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. Do not kill innocent people in this land.

  • Jer 7:5
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    5You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.

  • Ezek 22:7
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    7They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the resident foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

  • Exod 22:21-24
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    21“You must not wrong a resident foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

    22“You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

    23If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,

    24and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

  • Jer 7:7
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    7If you stop doing these things, I will allow you to continue to live in this land which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Exod 23:9
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    9“You must not oppress a resident foreigner, since you know the life of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

  • Ps 94:6
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    6They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.

  • Lev 19:33-34
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    33When a resident foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

    34The resident foreigner who lives with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 10:18-19
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    18who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

    19So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

  • Mal 3:5
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    5“I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the resident foreigner and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Isa 1:17
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    17Learn to do what is right! Promote justice! Give the oppressed reason to celebrate! Take up the cause of the orphan! Defend the rights of the widow!

  • Deut 27:19
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    19‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Exod 23:6-7
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    6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

    7Keep your distance from a false charge– do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.

  • Jer 7:9
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    9You steal. You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to other gods whom you have not previously known.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • Jer 25:6
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    6Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’

  • Deut 14:29
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    29Then the Levites(because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work you do.

  • Deut 24:14
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    14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

  • Ezek 18:7
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    7does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

  • 2 Chr 7:19
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    19“But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

  • Jer 7:3
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    3The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says: Change the way you have been living and do what is right. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live in this land.

  • Deut 24:19-21
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    19Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the LORD your God may bless all the work you do.

    20When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

    21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

  • Lev 19:15
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    15Justice, Love, and Propriety“‘You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.

  • Deut 19:10
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    10You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

  • Lev 25:17
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    17No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the LORD your God.

  • Ps 146:9
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    9The LORD protects the resident foreigner; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.

  • Job 22:9
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    9you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.

  • Prov 23:10
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    10Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,

  • Deut 15:7
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    7The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.

  • Prov 22:22
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    22Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,

  • Ezek 18:16
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    16does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,

  • Deut 23:16
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    16Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.

  • 2 Chr 7:17
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    17You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.

  • Lev 18:26
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    26You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,

  • Ezek 18:5
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    5“Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,

  • Lev 25:14
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    14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.