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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 31:9 — Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
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Pro 16:12 |
[It is] an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness. |
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Pro 20:8 |
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. |
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Lev 19:15 |
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: [but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. |
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Deu 1:16 |
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between [every] man and his brother, and the stranger [that is] with him. |
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Deu 16:18 |
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. |
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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 16:20 |
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. |
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2Sa 8:15 |
And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people. |
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Psa 58:1 |
[[To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.]] Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? |
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Psa 58:2 |
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. |
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Psa 72:1 |
[[[A Psalm] for Solomon.]] Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. |
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Psa 72:2 |
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. |
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Job 29:12 |
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him. |
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Job 29:15 |
I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame. |
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Job 29:16 |
I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. |
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Isa 1:17 |
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. |
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Isa 1:23 |
Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. |
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Isa 11:4 |
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. |
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Isa 32:1 |
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. |
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Isa 32:2 |
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. |
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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 22:3 |
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. |
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Jer 22:15 |
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, [and] then [it was] well with him? |
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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. |
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Jer 23:5 |
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. |
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Dan 4:27 |
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. |
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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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Zec 7:9 |
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: |
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Zec 9:9 |
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he [is] just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. |
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Jhn 7:24 |
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. |
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Hbr 1:9 |
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, [even] thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. |
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Rev 19:11 |
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him [was] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Proverbs 31:9," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Pro/31/9.html>.
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