Psalms 50:17-18
17 aFor you hate discipline,band you cast my words behind you.
18If you see a thief, cyou are pleased with him,
dand you keep company with adulterers.
Isaiah 1:23
23Your princes are rebelsand companions of thieves.
Everyone eloves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
fThey do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow’s cause does not come to them.
Jeremiah 7:11
11 gHas this house, hwhich is called by my name, ibecome a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord.Ezekiel 22:13
13“Behold, jI strike my hand at kthe dishonest gain that you have made, and at lthe blood that has been in your midst.Ezekiel 22:27
27 mHer princes in her midst are like wolves ntearing the prey, oshedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.Ezekiel 22:29
29The people of the land phave practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and qhave extorted from the sojourner without justice.Matthew 21:19
19 rAnd seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
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