Proverbs 22:7

New Messianic Version Bible

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

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Eli-sha [my God is salvation], saying, Your1s servant my husband is dead; and youi know that youri servant did fear the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and the creditor is come to take with him my two sons to be slaves.

Proverbs 22:16

He that oppresses the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that gives to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to lack.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor uses entreaties; but the rich answers roughly.

James 2:6

But you2f have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

Matthew 18:25

“But he had nothing to give and his master commanded to sell him and his children and all which was his to repay the value”.

Proverbs 22:22

Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Proverbs 14:31

He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honours him has mercy on the poor.

James 5:1

Go to now, [you2f] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].

Amos 8:6

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yes], and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Amos 8:4

Hear this, O you2f that swallow (to approve, commend, accept) up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, your2f cattle of Bashan [Fruitful], that [are] in the mountain of Shomron [watch mountain], which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury (interest paid for using money), so with the giver of usury (interest paid for using money) to him.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord - Kurios of Tzva’ot [Lord - Kurios of the Armies of Israel].

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); For three transgressions of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;