Bible Verses About Oppression
47 Scriptures on Oppression

Bible Verses About Oppression

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

1 Samuel 26:24

Behold, as your life was respected this day in my eyes, so let my life be respected in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all oppression."

2 Kings 13:4

Jehoahaz begged the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.

Acts 11:19

They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

Amos 3:9

Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them."

Deuteronomy 26:7

and we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;

Deuteronomy 4:30

When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your God, and listen to his voice:

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

Exodus 3:9

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Hosea 8:10

But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

Isaiah 30:12

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;

Isaiah 53:8

He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Isaiah 54:14

In righteousness you shall be established: you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Jeremiah 6:6

For the LORD of Armies said, "Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

Job 36:15

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

John 16:33

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

Leviticus 6:4

then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

Mark 13:19

For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

Mark 13:24

But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

Mark 4:17

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

Matthew 13:21

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Matthew 24:21

for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

Matthew 24:29

But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

Matthew 24:9

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.

Psalms 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Psalms 107:39

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

Psalms 119:134

Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.

Psalms 12:5

"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

Psalms 42:9

I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

Psalms 43:2

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalms 44:24

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Psalms 55:3

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

Psalms 62:10

Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.

Psalms 72:14

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

Psalms 73:8

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 2:10

Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 2:22

Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

Revelation 2:9

"I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Romans 2:9

oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 8:35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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