Cross references
Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 8 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Kings 4:1 (10 votes) and Matthew 18:25 (8 votes). 3 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Deuteronomy 15 to James 5.
Which verses does Proverbs 22:7 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- 2 Kings 4:110 votes
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 is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
- Matthew 18:258 votes
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.
- Proverbs 22:167 votes
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
- Proverbs 14:316 votes
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
- Proverbs 18:236 votes
The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.
- Proverbs 22:225 votes
Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
- James 2:65 votes
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
- James 5:14 votes
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
- Nehemiah 5:4–53 votes
Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards. 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 redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
- Amos 5:11–123 votes
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. For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
- Isaiah 24:22 votes
- Amos 4:12 votes
- Amos 8:42 votes
- Amos 8:62 votes
- Amos 2:61 vote
- James 5:41 vote
Which verses point to Proverbs 22:7?
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