Proverbs 22:7

Modern King James Version

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead. And you know that your servant feared Jehovah. And the lender has come to take my two children to himself for slaves.

Proverbs 14:31

He who presses the poor curses his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy upon the poor.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor speaks humble requests, but the rich answers roughly.

Proverbs 22:16

He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor press down the afflicted in the gate;

Isaiah 24:2

And as it is with the people, so it shall be with the priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the handmaid, so it is with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

Amos 2:6

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals;

Amos 4:1

Hear this Word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,

Amos 8:6

that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; and sell the chaff of the wheat?

Matthew 18:25

But as he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded that he, and his wife and children, and all that he had, be sold, and payment be made.

James 2:6

But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats?

James 5:1

Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.