Exploitation

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! — read the full passage →

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound; — read the full passage →

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. — read the full passage →

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say, — read the full passage →

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah. — read the full passage →

But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully, — read the full passage →

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.” — read the full passage →

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. — read the full passage →

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. — read the full passage →

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; — read the full passage →

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

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

“‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. — read the full passage →

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”