Amos 2:7

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They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed. Father and son use the same girl and so profane my holy name.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:14

But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die.”

1 Kings 21:4

So Ahab went home, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my ancestors.” He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat.

Proverbs 28:21

To show partiality is not good— yet a person will do wrong for a piece of bread.

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,

Isaiah 10:2

to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people: “It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

Ezekiel 22:11

In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

Ezekiel 36:20

And wherever they went among the nations they profaned my holy name, for it was said of them, ‘These are the Lord’s people, and yet they had to leave his land.’

Hosea 4:14

“I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes— a people without understanding will come to ruin!

Leviticus 18:15

“ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; do not have relations with her.

Leviticus 18:21

“ ‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:8

“ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.

Leviticus 20:3

I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and say to your husbands, “Bring us some drinks!”

Amos 5:11

You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.

Micah 2:9

You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.

Romans 2:24

As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.