"Faye's Daily words Of Encouragement # 399 Today's Word Is : Oppress"

Definition of the word Oppress:Which means to suppress by maltreat or abuse or to overburden or to depress mentally or to persecute , or to weight down.

Exodus chapter 22 - 21 : Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus chapter 25 - 14 :  And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbor or buyest ought of thy neighbors have ye shall not oppress one another.

Psalms chapter 10 - 18 : To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of of the earth may no more oppress.

Proverbs chapter 14 - 31 : He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his maker, but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

Jeremiah chapter 7 - 6 : If ye oppressed not the strangers, the fatherless and the widow and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your heart.

Acts chapter 7 - 24 :P And seeing one of them suffer him wrong, he defended him and avenged him that was oppressed and smote the Egyptian.

Today's daily word of encouragement word is Oppress: Which means to suppress by maltreat or abuse or overburden or depress mentally or to overburden or aggrieve. We or told not suppose to put down or persecute strangers or one another. The bible tells us "That he that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his maker , but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor"which means if we reproach our maker, we condemn or disgrace or criticize or rebuke God. If we honor God, then we have mercy on the poor and unfortunate. We cannot look down on the poor or those that are without means.

Benny Faye Douglass