Deuteronomy 27:19

""Cursed is the one who perverts justice due the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, "Amen!'

Deuteronomy 10:18

He executes justice for the orphan and the widows, loves the foreigner, and gives them food and clothing."

Deuteronomy 24:17

"Don't deny justice to a foreigner or to an orphan, nor take a widow's garment as collateral for a loan.

Exodus 22:21-24

"You are not to wrong or oppress an alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:2

You are not to follow the majority in doing wrong, and you are not to testify in a lawsuit so as to follow the majority and pervert justice.

Exodus 23:8-9

You are not to take a bribe because a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous.

Psalm 82:2-4

"How long will you judge partially by showing favor on the wicked? Interlude

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked man takes a bribe in secret in order to pervert the course of justice.

Proverbs 31:5

Otherwise, they may drink and forget what has been ordained, perverting justice for all the oppressed.

Micah 3:9

Please listen to this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, you officials of the house of Israel, you who hate administering justice, who pervert the very meaning of equity,

Malachi 3:5

"I'll come near to you for judgment. I'll be a witness, quick to speak against sorcerers, against adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who defraud the laborer of his wage, against those who defraud the widow and the orphan, against those who deprive the alien of justice, and against those who don't fear me," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

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