Jeremiah 22:13

Modern English Version

Woe to him who builds his house with unrighteousness and his chambers with injustice, who uses his neighbor’s services without wages, and gives him nothing for his work,

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:4

The king of Egypt made his brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Necho took his brother Jehoahaz and carried him to Egypt.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years. He did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

Job 31:39

if I have eaten its fruit without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life;

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more space where they may live alone in the midst of the land!

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge sits on eggs which it has not laid, so is he who gets riches, but not justly; it will forsake him in the midst of his days, and in the end he will be a fool.

Jeremiah 22:18

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will not lament for him, saying, “Ah, my brother!” or, “Ah, sister!” They will not lament for him, saying, “Ah, lord!” or, “Ah, his glory!”

Leviticus 19:13

You shall not defraud your neighbor or rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you all night until the morning.

Micah 3:10

who build Zion with bloodguilt and Jerusalem with wickedness.

Habakkuk 2:12

“Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed and establishes a city on iniquity!”

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Deuteronomy 15:13

When you send him out free from you, you must not let him go away empty-handed.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages that you kept back by fraud from the laborers who harvested your fields are crying, and the cries of those who harvested have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.