Amos 2:7

Good News Translation

They trample down the weak and helpless and push the poor out of the way. A man and his father have intercourse with the same slave woman, and so profane my holy name.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:14

But because you have shown such contempt for the Lord in doing this, your child will die.”

1 Kings 21:4

Ahab went home, depressed and angry over what Naboth had said to him. He lay down on his bed, facing the wall, and would not eat.

Proverbs 28:21

Prejudice is wrong. But some judges will do wrong to get even the smallest bribe.

Isaiah 10:1

You are doomed! You make unjust laws that oppress my people.

Isaiah 10:2

That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord is bringing the elders and leaders of his people to judgment. He makes this accusation: “You have plundered vineyards, and your houses are full of what you have taken from the poor.

Isaiah 3:15

You have no right to crush my people and take advantage of the poor. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 22:11

Some commit adultery, and others seduce their daughters-in-law or their half sisters.

Ezekiel 36:20

Wherever they went, they brought disgrace on my holy name, because people would say, ‘These are the people of the Lord, but they had to leave his land.’

Hosea 4:14

Yet I will not punish them for this, because you yourselves go off with temple prostitutes, and together with them you offer pagan sacrifices. As the proverb says, ‘A people without sense will be ruined.’

Leviticus 18:15

Do not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law

Leviticus 18:21

Do not hand over any of your children to be used in the worship of the god Molech, because that would bring disgrace on the name of God, the Lord.

Leviticus 18:8

Do not disgrace your father by having intercourse with any of his other wives.

Leviticus 20:3

If any of you give one of your children to Molech and make my sacred Tent unclean and disgrace my holy name, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you my people.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this, you women of Samaria, who grow fat like the well-fed cows of Bashan, who mistreat the weak, oppress the poor, and demand that your husbands keep you supplied with liquor!

Amos 5:11

You have oppressed the poor and robbed them of their grain. And so you will not live in the fine stone houses you build or drink wine from the beautiful vineyards you plant.

Amos 5:12

I know how terrible your sins are and how many crimes you have committed. You persecute good people, take bribes, and prevent the poor from getting justice in the courts.

Amos 8:4

Listen to this, you that trample on the needy and try to destroy the poor of the country.

Micah 2:2

When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.

Micah 2:9

You drive the women of my people out of the homes they love, and you have robbed their children of my blessings forever.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials are like roaring lions; its judges are like hungry wolves, too greedy to leave a bone until morning.

Romans 2:24

The scripture says, “Because of you Jews, the Gentiles speak evil of God.”

1 Corinthians 5:1

Now, it is actually being said that there is sexual immorality among you so terrible that not even the heathen would be guilty of it. I am told that a man is sleeping with his stepmother!