Bible Dictionary: The Poor: Punishment For: Acting Unjustly Towards

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Job 20:19,29
Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away an house which he built not;
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Job 22:6,10
For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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Isaiah 10:1-3
Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
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Amos 5:11,12
For as much therefore as your treading is on 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.
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Library

Unsound Spiritual Trading
... them did not consider themselves to be acting disreputably, their ... such a nice man;
and although, poor fellow, he ... you that from the guilt and punishment no way ...
/.../spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/unsound spiritual trading.htm

Second Tractate. On Providence (1).
... Those that have money will be made poor " and to ... a part of the Play, bringing to
its acting its personal ... so, it receives in the end its punishment and reward ...
/.../plotinus/the six enneads/second tractate on providence 1.htm

Of Evil-Speaking in General.
... absolute Lord; as the Sovereign, God's representative, acting in the ... do ill; which
is a sort of punishment, including the ... Whoso mocketh the poor, despiseth his ...
/.../barrow/sermons on evil-speaking by isaac barrow/of evil-speaking in general.htm

Defence against the Arians.
... are still insensible to shame, are again acting insolently against ... except to move
the Emperor to capital punishment? ... how, he argued, should he a poor man, and ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/defence against the arians.htm

Of Civil Government.
... Acting otherwise, they wickedly abuse their power which was ... are sent by him for the
punishment of evil ... judgments, and enactments; others pillage poor people of ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 20 of civil government.htm

Matt. I. 17
... 3. Wherefore, that he was not acting without an object ... this to thee becomes a store
[196] of punishment. ... the furnace, feeling no pity towards the poor; lest the ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily iv matt i 17.htm

He Does Battle for the Faith; He Restores Peace among those who ...
... But not without punishment. ... Where will you, a poor and needy man,[773] find the means
to finish it ... 721] It would seem from this that Malachy was acting as legate ...
/.../chapter vii he does battle.htm

Homilies on the Statues.
... cares more than we for the poor, [1168]341 ... to confession, [1204]422; why He delays
punishment, [1205]424 ... recoils when slighted, [1364]353; towards aggressors an ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/chrysostom/on the priesthood/homilies on the statues.htm

Rom. vi. 19
... making him steal what belonged to the poor. ... doorkeepers; alarming and threatening,
acting shamelessly, watching ... covet, wouldest make thy punishment the greater ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xii rom vi 19.htm

Index of Subjects.
... charity, [862]111; to the poor, censured, [863 ... by their inconsistency, [903]246;
punishment of, foretold ... to the brethren, [1144]372; how towards heathens, [1145 ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/index of subjects.htm