"Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me," says the LORD of Hosts. Cross References James 5:4 Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. Exodus 22:22 You must not mistreat any widow or orphan. Leviticus 19:13 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand. Deuteronomy 18:10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.' And let all the people say, 'Amen!' Proverbs 22:22 Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate, Isaiah 57:3 "But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! Jeremiah 5:2 Although they say, 'As surely as the LORD lives,' they are swearing falsely." Jeremiah 5:29 Should I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this? Jeremiah 7:9 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, Jeremiah 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers--because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up--their course is evil and their power is misused. Jeremiah 27:9 But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon.' Jeremiah 27:10 For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish. Jeremiah 29:23 For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD." Jeremiah 42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us. Ezekiel 22:7 Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed. Ezekiel 22:9 Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency. Habakkuk 1:12 Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction. Zechariah 11:12 Then I told them, "If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver. Malachi 2:14 Yet you ask, "Why?" It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Treasury of Scripture And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, said the LORD of hosts. I will come. Malachi 2:17 Psalm 50:3-6 Psalm 96:13 a swift. Malachi 2:14 Psalm 50:7 Psalm 81:8 the sorcerers. Leviticus 20:6,10,27 Deuteronomy 5:11,17-21 Jeremiah 7:9,10 against those. Exodus 22:21-24 Leviticus 19:13 Deuteronomy 24:14,15,17 oppress. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 fear. Genesis 20:11 |