Deuteronomy 24:17

Consideration For People In Need

¹⁶ Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers. Everyone shall be put to death for his own sin. ¹⁷ “You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow’s garment in pledge. ¹⁸ Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and that Jehovah your God redeemed you from there. I therefore command you to do this.

Pervert Justice

Turn Aside

No

Deuteronomy 16:19

Never pervert justice. Always be impartial. Never take a bribe, because bribes blind wise people and deny justice to those who are in the right.

Exodus 22:21-22

Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.

Exodus 23:6

Do not deny justice to a poor person at his trial.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed is he who withholds justice due an alien, orphan, and widow. The people all say: Amen.

Exodus 23:2

Do not follow the majority to do wrong. Do not give testimony that perverts justice.

Exodus 23:9

Do not mistreat a foreigner. You know how it feels to be a foreigner. After all you were foreigners in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You will not show partiality in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great. You will not fear man for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, friends with thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They never defend orphans. They do not listen to the widows' pleas.

Jeremiah 5:28

They grow big and fat. Their evil deeds have no limits. They have no respect for the rights of others. They have no respect for the rights of orphans. But they still prosper. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

Exodus 22:26-27

If you take someone's cloak as a pledge that he will pay you, you must give it back to him before the sunsets,

Deuteronomy 10:17-18

Jehovah your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords! He is the great, the powerful, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.

Deuteronomy 24:6

Do not take a hand mill or an upper millstone as security for a debt. That would be taking away a man's livelihood.

Deuteronomy 24:13

Return the pledge to him before the sun goes down. He will have his pledged item and he may sleep. He will bless you. And it will be righteousness for you before Jehovah your God.

1 Samuel 12:3-4

Here I am! Testify against me before Jehovah and before his anointed one. Whose bull have I stolen? Whose donkey have I taken? Have I cheated anyone? Have I oppressed any? Have I ever taken a bribe? Tell me and I will make it right.

Job 22:8-9

The powerful possess the land, and the favored live in it.

Job 29:11-17

When the ear heard, it commended me, and when the eye saw, it approved.

Psalm 82:1-5

([Psalm of Asaph]) God stands in the congregation of the mighty. He pronounces judgment among the god-like ones: (John 10:35)

Psalm 94:3-6

O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked exult?

Psalm 94:20-21

Can wicked rulers be allied with you? They frame mischief by decree (the law).

Proverbs 22:22-23

Do not rob the poor because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate.

Proverbs 31:5

They will drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the country, do not be shocked at the sight. One official watches over another official and there are higher officials over them.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the face of the poor? Declares Jehovah of Hosts.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil.

Jeremiah 22:3

This is what Jehovah says: Judge fairly, and do what is right. Rescue those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not mistreat foreigners, orphans, or widows, and do not oppress them. Do not kill innocent people in this place.

Ezekiel 22:7

People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.'

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.'

Amos 5:7-12

You who turn justice to wormwood (a curse), and cast righteousness down to the earth

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to (it is in the power of their hands).

Micah 7:3

They diligently seek to do evil with their hands. The prince asks and the judge is ready for a bribe. The great man utters his own evil desire. They weave it together.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow. Do not oppress the fatherless. Do not oppress the stranger and do not oppress the poor. And you should not devise evil in your heart against your brother.

Malachi 3:5

I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Luke 3:14

Soldiers also asked him: What must we do? And he said: Do not take money from any one by force. Never falsely accuse any one wrongfully and be content with your wages.

James 2:6

You have dishonored the poor man. Do the rich oppress you, and personally drag you into court?