Bible Verses about โexploitationโ
The Bible contains 16 verses about exploitation across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor 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.โ
โFor God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.โ
โThere 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.โ
โTherefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.โ
โThe 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 brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;โ
โWoe 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!โ
โto appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.โ
โIn covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.โ
โto proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;โ
โ"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.โ
โThey shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.โ
โThe ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won't forget your law.โ
โAll 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?"โ
โWoe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!โ
โBut let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.โ
โA dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.โ
