18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Justice and Mercy
• Wealth and Poverty

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Thess 4:6 — That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
• 2Sam 22:7 — In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
• Amos 5:12 — For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
• Col 4:1 — Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
• Col 4:1 — Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
• Deut 15:9 — Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cr
• Deut 24:14 — Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
• Deut 24:15 — At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
• Eccl 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was
• Exod 2:23 — And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage
• Exod 3:9 — Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
• Exod 22:23 — If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
• Exod 22:27 — For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
• Gen 4:10 — And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
• Gen 4:10 — And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
• Gen 18:20 — And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
• Gen 19:13 — For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
• Hos 12:7 — He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
• Isa 5:7 — For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
• Isa 33:15 — He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shuttet
• Jas 2:6 — But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
• Jer 22:13 — Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
• Jer 22:13 — Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
• Job 7:2 — As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
• Job 20:19 — Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
• Job 24:10 — They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
• Job 24:11 — Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
• Job 31:39 — If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
• Job 34:28 — So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
• Job 34:28 — So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
• Lev 19:13 — Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
• Lev 19:13 — Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
• Luke 18:7 — And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
• Mal 3:5 — 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
• Mal 3:5 — 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
• Prov 3:27 — Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
• Prov 4:17 — For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
• Ps 9:12 — When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
• Ps 12:5 — For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Rom 9:29 — And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.