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Exd 23:2 |
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]: |
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Exd 23:3 |
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. |
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Deu 16:19 |
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. |
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Deu 27:19 |
Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. |
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2Ch 19:7 |
Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts. |
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Job 31:13 |
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; |
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Job 31:21 |
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: |
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Job 31:22 |
[Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. |
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Psa 82:3 |
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. |
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Psa 82:4 |
Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked. |
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Ecc 5:8 |
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they. |
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Isa 10:1 |
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed; |
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Isa 10:2 |
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless! |
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Jer 5:28 |
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. |
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Jer 6:28 |
They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters. |
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Jer 7:6 |
[If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: |
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Amo 5:11 |
Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. |
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Amo 5:12 |
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right]. |
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Mic 3:1 |
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know judgment? |
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Mic 3:2 |
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; |
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Mic 3:3 |
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. |
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Mic 3:4 |
Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. |
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Zep 3:1 |
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! |
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Zep 3:2 |
She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. |
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Zep 3:3 |
Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. |
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Zep 3:4 |
Her prophets [are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. |
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Mal 3:5 |
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. |
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Jam 2:5 |
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? |
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Jam 2:6 |
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? |
