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Zech. 7:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

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Ex. 22:21‑24• ²¹Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.
²²Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
²³If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry;
²⁴and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. (Ex. 22:21‑24)

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Ex. 23:9• ⁹And the stranger thou shalt not oppress; for ye know the spirit of the stranger, for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt. (Ex. 23:9)

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Deut. 24:14‑18• ¹⁴Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates:
¹⁵on his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul yearneth after it; lest he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be a sin in thee.
¹⁶The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
¹⁷Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow's garment.
¹⁸And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and that Jehovah thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing. (Deut. 24:14‑18)

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Deut. 27:19• ¹⁹Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow! And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:19)

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Psa. 72:4• ⁴He will judge the afflicted of the people,{HR}He will save the sons of the needy,{HR}And will crush the oppressor. (Psa. 72:4)

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Prov. 22:22‑23• ²²Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor,{HR}Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
²³For Jehovah will plead their cause,{HR}And despoil the soul of those that despoil them. (Prov. 22:22‑23)

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Prov. 23:10• ¹⁰Remove not the ancient landmark,{HR}And enter not into the fields of the fatherless; (Prov. 23:10)

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Prov. 23:11• ¹¹For their redeemer [is] strong;{HR}He will plead their cause against thee. (Prov. 23:11)

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Isa. 1:16‑17,23• ¹⁶Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes.
¹⁷Cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
²³Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. (Isa. 1:16‑17,23)

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Jer. 5:28• ²⁸They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge. (Jer. 5:28)

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Jer. 22:15‑17• ¹⁵Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
¹⁶He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
¹⁷But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:15‑17)

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Ezek. 22:7,12,29• ⁷In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
¹²In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
²⁹The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:7,12,29)

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Amos 4:1• ¹Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. (Amos 4:1)

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Amos 5:11‑12• ¹¹Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
¹²For I know your manifold 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 5:11‑12)

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Mic. 2:1‑3• ¹Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
²And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
³Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye walk haughtily: for it is an evil time. (Mic. 2:1‑3)

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Mic. 3:1‑4• ¹And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
²Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
³and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
⁴Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings. (Mic. 3:1‑4)

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Zeph. 3:1‑3• ¹Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
²She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.
³Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. (Zeph. 3:1‑3)

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Mal. 3:5• ⁵And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)

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Matt. 23:14• ¹⁴(Verse not included in this translation). (Matt. 23:14)

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1 Cor. 6:10• ¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom. (1 Cor. 6:10)

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James 5:4• ⁴Behold, the hire of the labourers who reaped your fields, that is kept back of you crieth out, and the cries of those that reaped entered into the ears of Jehovah of hosts. (James 5:4)

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Psa. 21:11• ¹¹For they stretched out evil over thee,{HR}They have devised a wicked device; they are not able. (Psa. 21:11)

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Psa. 36:4• ⁴He deviseth falsehood upon his bed,{HR}He setteth himself upon a way [that is] not good,{HR}He rejecteth not evil. (Psa. 36:4)

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Psa. 140:2• ²Who devise evils in heart;{HR}All day they gather [for] wars. (Psa. 140:2)

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Prov. 3:29• ²⁹Devise not evil against thy neighbour,{HR}Seeing he dwelleth securely by thee. (Prov. 3:29)

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Prov. 6:18• ¹⁸A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,{HR}Feet that are swift in running to mischief, (Prov. 6:18)

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Jer. 11:19‑20• ¹⁹And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
²⁰But thou, Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause. (Jer. 11:19‑20)

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Jer. 18:18• ¹⁸Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. (Jer. 18:18)

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Mic. 2:1• ¹Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. (Mic. 2:1)

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Mark 7:21‑23• ²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
²²thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
²³all these wicked things go forth from within, and defile the man. (Mark 7:21‑23)

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James 1:14‑15• ¹⁴But each is tempted when by his own lust drawn away and enticed;
¹⁵then lust having conceived bringeth forth sin; and sin when completed giveth birth to death. (James 1:14‑15)

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1 John 3:15• ¹⁵Every one that hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath life eternal abiding in him. (1 John 3:15)

J. N. Darby Translation

and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

W. Kelly Translation

and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)