Jeremiah 22:13

God's Word

“How horrible it will be for the person who builds his house dishonestly and his upper rooms through injustice. He makes his neighbors work for nothing and doesn’t pay them for their work.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:4

The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim king of Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Jehoahaz away to Egypt.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 11 years in Jerusalem. He did what the Lord his God considered evil.

Job 31:39

If I have eaten its produce without paying for it and made its owners breathe their last,

Isaiah 5:8

How horrible it will be for you who acquire house after house and buy field after field until there’s nothing left and you have to live by yourself in the land.

Jeremiah 17:11

A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a godless fool.”

Jeremiah 22:18

This is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim, son of Judah’s King Josiah: People won’t mourn for him and say, “How horrible it is for my brother and sister!” They won’t mourn for him and say, “How horrible it is for my master and his splendor!”

Leviticus 19:13

“Never oppress or rob your neighbor. Never keep the pay you owe a hired worker overnight.

Micah 3:10

You build Zion on bloodshed and Jerusalem on wickedness.

Habakkuk 2:12

“ ‘How horrible it will be for the one who builds a city by slaughter and founds a town by crime.’

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to judge you. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers, lying witnesses, and those who cheat workers out of their wages and oppress widows and orphans. I will also testify against those who deprive foreigners of their rights. None of them fear me,” says the Lord of Armies.

Deuteronomy 15:13

But when you let them go, don’t send them away empty-handed.

James 5:4

The wages you refused to pay the people who harvested your fields shout ⌞to God⌟ against you. The Lord of Armies has heard the cries of those who gather the crops.