Amos 2:7

New Living Translation

They trample helpless people in the dust and shove the oppressed out of the way. Both father and son sleep with the same woman, corrupting my holy name.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:14

Nevertheless, because you have shown utter contempt for the word of the Lord by doing this, your child will die.”

1 Kings 21:4

So Ahab went home angry and sullen because of Naboth’s answer. The king went to bed with his face to the wall and refused to eat!

Proverbs 28:21

Showing partiality is never good, yet some will do wrong for a mere piece of bread.

Isaiah 10:1

What sorrow awaits the unjust judges and those who issue unfair laws.

Isaiah 10:2

They deprive the poor of justice and deny the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and take advantage of orphans.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord comes forward to pronounce judgment on the elders and rulers of his people: “You have ruined Israel, my vineyard. Your houses are filled with things stolen from the poor.

Isaiah 3:15

How dare you crush my people, grinding the faces of the poor into the dust?” demands the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Ezekiel 22:11

Within your walls live men who commit adultery with their neighbors’ wives, who defile their daughters-in-law, or who rape their own sisters.

Ezekiel 36:20

But when they were scattered among the nations, they brought shame on my holy name. For the nations said, ‘These are the people of the Lord, but he couldn’t keep them safe in his own land!’

Hosea 4:14

But why should I punish them for their prostitution and adultery? For your men are doing the same thing, sinning with whores and shrine prostitutes. O foolish people! You refuse to understand, so you will be destroyed.

Leviticus 18:15

“Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, so you must not have sexual relations with her.

Leviticus 18:21

“Do not permit any of your children to be offered as a sacrifice to Molech, for you must not bring shame on the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:8

“Do not have sexual relations with any of your father’s wives, for this would violate your father.

Leviticus 20:3

I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, because they have defiled my sanctuary and brought shame on my holy name by offering their children to Molech.

Amos 4:1

Listen to me, you fat cows living in Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, and who are always calling to your husbands, “Bring us another drink!”

Amos 5:11

You trample the poor, stealing their grain through taxes and unfair rent. Therefore, though you build beautiful stone houses, you will never live in them. Though you plant lush vineyards, you will never drink wine from them.

Amos 5:12

For I know the vast number of your sins and the depth of your rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

Amos 8:4

Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample down the needy!

Micah 2:2

When you want a piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone’s house, you take it by fraud and violence. You cheat a man of his property, stealing his family’s inheritance.

Micah 2:9

You have evicted women from their pleasant homes and forever stripped their children of all that God would give them.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.

Romans 2:24

No wonder the Scriptures say, “The Gentiles blaspheme the name of God because of you.”

1 Corinthians 5:1

I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother.