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Bible Verses About Fleeing from oppression

This collection includes 50 passages about Fleeing from oppression. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

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Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

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The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

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From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

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Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

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Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

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He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

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Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

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And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

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And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

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And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

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In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

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If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

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The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

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And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

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For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

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The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

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For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

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The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

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And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;

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So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

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Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

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For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

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The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

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Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

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Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

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And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

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Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

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Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

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But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.

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He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

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But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

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