Jeremiah 22:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbors work for nothing and does not give them their wages,

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:4

The king of Egypt made his brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed his name to Jehoiakim, but Neco took his brother Jehoahaz and carried him to Egypt.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

Job 31:39

if I have eaten its yield without payment and caused the death of its owners,

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in midlife it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.

Jeremiah 22:18

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah: They shall not lament for him, saying, “Alas, my brother!” or “Alas, sister!” They shall not lament for him, saying, “Alas, lord!” or “Alas, his majesty!”

Leviticus 19:13

“You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning.

Micah 3:10

who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong!

Habakkuk 2:12

“Alas for you who build a town by bloodshed and found a city on iniquity!”

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 15:13

And when you send a male slave out from you a free person, you shall not send him out empty-handed.

James 5:4

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.