Jeremiah 22:3
Thus says Yahweh, "Act [with] justice and righteousness, and deliver [the] one who has been seized from the hand of [the] oppressor. And you must not oppress [the] immigrant, [the] orphan, and [the] widow. And you must not shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 21:12
O house of David, thus says Yahweh, "Execute judgment in the morning, justice, and deliver [the] one who has been seized from [the] hand of [the] oppressor, lest my wrath goes forth like the fire and it burns, and there is no [one who] quenches [it] because of the evil of your deeds.
Jeremiah 22:17
"But there is nothing [in] your eyes and your heart {except} your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion."
Micah 6:8
He has told you, O mortal, what [is] good, and what does Yahweh ask from you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Exodus 22:22
" 'You will not afflict any widow or orphan.
Exodus 23:6-9
" 'You will not pervert the justice of your poor in his legal dispute.
Leviticus 19:15
" 'You shall not do injustice in judgment; {you shall not show partiality to the powerless}; you shall not give preference {to the powerful}; you shall judge your fellow citizen with justice.
Deuteronomy 10:18
[And he] executes justice for the orphan and widow, and [he is] one who loves [the] alien, to give to them food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 16:18-20
"You shall appoint judges and officials for you in all your {towns} that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you throughout your tribes, and you shall render [for] the people {righteous judgments}.
Deuteronomy 19:10-13
[Do this] so that innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance and [thereby] bloodguilt would be on you.
Deuteronomy 24:7
"If a man is {caught} kidnapping somebody from [among] his countrymen, the {Israelites}, and he treats him as a slave or he sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and [so] you shall purge the evil {from among you}.
Deuteronomy 25:1
"When a legal dispute {takes place} between men and they come near to the court, and [the judges] judge [with respect to] them, then they shall declare the righteous [to be] in the right and they shall condemn the wicked,
Deuteronomy 27:19
'Cursed be the one who deprives [the] alien, [the] orphan, and [the] widow of justice.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said to me, the rock of Israel has spoken; 'He who rules over mankind rules righteously, in the fear of God.
2 Kings 24:4
Also, [for] the blood of the innocent that he had shed--and he filled Jerusalem [with] innocent blood--Yahweh was not willing to forgive.
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty-handed, and [the] arms of orphans were crushed.
Job 24:9
"They snatch [the] orphan from [the] breast, and they take a pledge against [the] needy.
Job 29:7-17
"At my going out [the] gate to [the] city, I secured my seat in the square.
Psalm 68:5
A father to orphans and a judge for widows [is] God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 72:2-4
May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
Psalm 94:6
They kill widow and stranger, and they murder orphans,
Psalm 94:21
They band together against [the] life of [the] righteous, and declare [the] blameless guilty of blood.
Proverbs 6:17
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 23:10
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
Isaiah 1:15-20
And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I [will] not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend.
Jeremiah 7:5-6
For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do justice between a man and his neighbor,
Jeremiah 9:24
{But only} in this must the one who boasts boast, [that] he has insight, and [that] he knows me, that I [am] Yahweh, showing loyal love, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these [things] I delight," {declares} Yahweh.
Jeremiah 26:16
Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, "{This man does not deserve} a sentence of death, for in the name of Yahweh our God, he has spoken to us."
Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; {they violated} the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated [the] orphan and widow.
Joel 3:19
Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom will become a {desolate desert}, because of the violence [they did] against the children of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.
Micah 3:11
Its rulers judge for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money. But they lean on Yahweh, saying, "[Is] not Yahweh in our midst? Disaster will not come upon us."
Zechariah 7:9-11
"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Judge [with] trustworthy justice, and show steadfast love and compassion {to one another}.
Malachi 3:5
"Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear {falsely}, and against the oppressors of [the] hired worker [with his] wages, [the] widow and [the] orphan, and {the abusers of} [the] alien, and [yet] do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unstained by the world.