Bible Verses about “being oppressed”
The Bible contains 40 verses about being oppressed across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."”
“came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.”
“But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,”
“On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.'”
“Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"”
“If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.”
“If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.”
“"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.”
“"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.”
“If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;”
“"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.”
“Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.”
“By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.”
“In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.”
“He said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."”
“and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.”
“"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.”
“"If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.”
“"You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.”
“If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.”
“"Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.”
“If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,”
“for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.”
“"You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.”
“If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.”
“"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.”
“"If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.”
“"He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.”
“For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.”
“"You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.”
“"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.”
“"If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.”
“If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.”
“"If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;”
“the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.”
“But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.”
“If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.”
“If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.”
“You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.”
“"You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.”