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Jer 22:16 — He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

judged		Jer 5:28; Job 29:12-17; Psa 72:1-4,12,13; Psa 82:3,4; Psa 109:31; Pro 24:11,12; Isa 1:17
was not		Jer 9:3,16,24; Jer 31:33,34; 1Sa 2:2; 1Ch 28:9; Psa 9:10; Jhn 8:19,54,55; Jhn 16:3; Jhn 17:3,6; Tts 1:16; 1Jo 2:3,4

Correlating Passages

judged

	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.
	Job 29:12	Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
	Job 29:13	The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
	Job 29:14	I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.
	Job 29:15	I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.
	Job 29:16	I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.
	Job 29:17	And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
	Psa 72:1	[[[A Psalm] for Solomon.]] Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
	Psa 72:2	He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
	Psa 72:3	The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
	Psa 72:4	He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
	Psa 72:12	For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and [him] that hath no helper.
	Psa 72:13	He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
	Psa 82:3	Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
	Psa 82:4	Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.
	Psa 109:31	For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save [him] from those that condemn his soul.
	Pro 24:11	If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn unto death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;
	Pro 24:12	If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider [it]? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth [not] he know [it]? and shall [not] he render to [every] man according to his works?
	Isa 1:17	Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

was not

	Jer 9:3	And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
	Jer 9:16	I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
	Jer 9:24	But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.
	Jer 31:33	But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
	Jer 31:34	And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
	1Sa 2:2	[There is] none holy as the LORD: for [there is] none beside thee: neither [is there] any rock like our God.
	1Ch 28:9	And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
	Psa 9:10	And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
	Jhn 8:19	Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
	Jhn 8:54	Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
	Jhn 8:55	Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
	Jhn 16:3	And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
	Jhn 17:3	And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
	Jhn 17:6	I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
	Tts 1:16	They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
	1Jo 2:3	And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
	1Jo 2:4	He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

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