Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
BSB
ASV
The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.
KJV
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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2 Kings 4:1Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor…
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Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do…
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Proverbs 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
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The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
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Proverbs 22:16Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
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Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
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Matthew 18:25Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
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We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to…
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor…
