Proverbs 22:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two children as slaves.”

Proverbs 14:31

Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor because they are poor or crush the afflicted at the gate,

Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the male slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals—

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land,

Amos 8:6

buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”

Matthew 18:25

and, as he could not pay, the lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions and payment to be made.

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?

James 5:1

Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you.

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.