Hosea 12:7-8
7 A merchant, in whose hands are afalse balances,he loves bto oppress.
8Ephraim has said, “Ah, but cI am rich;
I have found wealth for myself;
in all my labors dthey cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”
Zechariah 11:5
5 eThose who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, fI have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.Mark 11:17
17And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, g‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But hyou have made it a den of robbers.”Acts 16:19
19But iwhen her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and jdragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.Acts 19:24-27
24For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, kbrought no little business to the craftsmen. 25 lThese he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. 26And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, msaying that ngods made with hands are not gods. 27And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the ogreat goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”Revelation of John 18:3
3For all nations have drunk ▼▼Some manuscripts fallen by
qthe wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,
and rthe kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,
and sthe merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”
Revelation of John 18:11
11And tthe merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore,
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