Amos 2:7

New American Bible - revised edition

They trample the heads of the destitute into the dust of the earth, and force the lowly out of the way. Son and father sleep with the same girl, profaning my holy name.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:14

but since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you will surely die.”

1 Kings 21:4

Ahab went home disturbed and angry at the answer Naboth the Jezreelite had given him: “I will not give you my ancestral heritage.” Lying down on his bed, he turned away and would not eat.

Proverbs 28:21

To show partiality is never good: for even a morsel of bread one may do wrong.

Isaiah 10:1

Ah! Those who enact unjust statutes, who write oppressive decrees,

Isaiah 10:2

Depriving the needy of judgment, robbing my people’s poor of justice, Making widows their plunder, and orphans their prey!

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment with the people’s elders and princes: You, you who have devoured the vineyard; the loot wrested from the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people, and grinding down the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the God of hosts.

Ezekiel 22:11

There are those in you who do abominable things with their neighbors’ wives, men who defile their daughters-in-law by incest, men who coerce their sisters to intercourse, the daughters of their own fathers.

Ezekiel 36:20

But when they came to the nations, where they went, they desecrated my holy name, for people said of them: “These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to leave their land.”

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters for their prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law for their adultery, Because the men themselves consort with prostitutes, and with temple women they offer sacrifice! Thus a people without understanding comes to ruin.

Leviticus 18:15

You shall not have intercourse with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife; you shall not have intercourse with her.

Leviticus 18:21

You shall not offer any of your offspring for immolation to Molech, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:8

You shall not have intercourse with your father’s wife, for that would be a disgrace to your father.

Leviticus 20:3

I myself will turn against and cut off that individual from among the people; for in the giving of offspring to Molech, my sanctuary was defiled and my holy name was profaned.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mount of Samaria: Who oppress the destitute and abuse the needy; Who say to your husbands, “Bring us a drink!”

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you tax the destitute and exact from them levies of grain, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, you shall not live in them; Though you have planted choice vineyards, you shall not drink their wine.

Amos 5:12

Yes, I know how many are your crimes, how grievous your sins: Oppressing the just, accepting bribes, turning away the needy at the gate.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land:

Micah 2:2

You covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them; You cheat owners of their houses, people of their inheritance.

Micah 2:9

The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; From their children you take away forever the honor I gave them.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials within it are roaring lions; Its judges are desert wolves that have no bones to gnaw by morning.

Romans 2:24

For, as it is written, “Because of you the name of God is reviled among the Gentiles.”

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is widely reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of a kind not found even among pagans—a man living with his father’s wife.