Quotes about Inequality
“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
- Jeremiah 6:13
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
- Ezekiel 22:29
They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
- Amos 2:7
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
- Amos 4:1
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
- Amos 5:11
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Amos 8:4
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
- Amos 8:6
For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
- Matthew 25:29
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.
- Matthew 26:11
He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- Luke 1:53
And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
- Luke 16:20
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
- James 2:6