Leviticus 25:14

In buying and selling, Israelites were not to wrong one another. Economic dealings were to be honest and fair.

Cross-references · 32

• Lev 19:13“‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
• Lev 25:17You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.
• Amos 5:11–12Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
• Ezek 22:12–13In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Ezek 22:7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
• Jas 5:1–5Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• 1 Sam 12:3–4Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
• Isa 58:6“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
• Mic 2:2–3They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
• Mic 6:10–12Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
• Amos 8:4–7Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
• Deut 16:19–20You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
• 2 Chr 16:10Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
• Neh 9:36–37“Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
• Isa 3:12–15As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
• Prov 14:31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
• Ps 10:18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
• Prov 22:16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
• Prov 28:16A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.
• Mic 7:3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
• Jer 22:17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
• Prov 28:3A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
• Prov 21:13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
• 1 Cor 6:8No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
• Prov 28:8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
• Isa 5:7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
• Eccl 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
• Isa 33:15He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil —
• Luke 3:14Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”
• Isa 1:17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
• Judg 4:3The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.
• Job 20:19–20For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

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