Zechariah 7:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Don't ill-treat widows or orphans or foreigners or anyone who is poor, and stop making plans to hurt each other.”

Cross References

Psalm 140:2

They think up evil plans and always cause trouble.

Psalm 21:11

All their plans to harm you will come to nothing.

Psalm 36:4

Those people stay awake, thinking up mischief, and they follow the wrong road, refusing to turn from sin.

Psalm 72:4

Let the king defend the poor, rescue the homeless, and crush everyone who hurts them.

Exodus 23:9

Don't ill-treat foreigners. You were foreigners in Egypt, and you know what it is like.

Proverbs 3:29

Don't try to be mean to neighbours who trust you.

Proverbs 6:18

those who make evil plans or are quick to do wrong,

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders have rejected me to become friends of crooks; your rulers are looking for gifts and bribes. Widows and orphans never get a fair trial.

Jeremiah 18:18

Some of the people said, “Let's get rid of Jeremiah! We will always have priests to teach us God's laws, as well as wise people to give us advice, and prophets to speak the LORD's messages. So, instead of listening to Jeremiah any longer, let's accuse him of a crime.”

Jeremiah 49:11

But I can be trusted to care for your orphans and widows.

Jeremiah 5:28

and prosperous, but you refuse to help the poor get the justice they deserve.

Jeremiah 7:6

Stop taking advantage of foreigners, orphans, and widows. Don't kill innocent people. And stop worshipping other gods.

Ezekiel 18:12

cheats the poor, and robs people. He keeps what is given to him as security for a loan. He worships idols, does disgusting things,

Ezekiel 22:12

Others of you accept money to murder someone. Your own people charge high interest when making a loan to other Israelites, and they get rich by cheating. Worst of all, you have forgotten me, the LORD God.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people themselves cheat and rob; they abuse the poor and take advantage of foreigners.

Ezekiel 22:7

None of you honour your parents, and you cheat foreigners, orphans, and widows.

Amos 4:1

You women of Samaria are fat cows! You ill-treat and abuse the poor and needy, then you say to your husbands, “Bring us more drinks!”

Zechariah 8:17

Don't ever plan evil things against others or tell lies under oath. I, the LORD, hate such things.

Malachi 3:5

The LORD All-Powerful said: I'm now on my way to judge you. And I will quickly condemn all who practise witchcraft or cheat in marriage or tell lies in court or rob workers of their pay or ill-treat widows and orphans or steal the property of foreigners or refuse to respect me.

Matthew 23:13

You Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. You won't go in yourselves, and you keep others from going in.

1 Corinthians 6:10

will share in God's kingdom. Neither will any thief or greedy person or drunkard or anyone who curses and cheats others.

James 5:4

You refused to pay the people who worked in your fields, and now their unpaid wages are shouting out against you. The Lord All-Powerful has heard the cries of the workers who harvested your crops.

1 John 3:15

If you hate each other, you are murderers, and we know that murderers do not have eternal life.