Jeremiah 22:3
The Lord says, "Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. Do not kill innocent people in this land.
Jeremiah 21:12
O royal family descended from David. The Lord says: 'See to it that people each day are judged fairly. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Otherwise, my wrath will blaze out against you. It will burn like a fire that cannot be put out because of the evil that you have done.
Jeremiah 22:17
But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.
Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord really wants from you: He wants you to promote justice, to be faithful, and to live obediently before your God.
Exodus 22:22
"You must not afflict any widow or orphan.
Exodus 23:6-9
"You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.
Leviticus 19:15
"'You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.
Deuteronomy 10:18
who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 16:18-20
You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.
Deuteronomy 19:10-13
You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
Deuteronomy 24:7
If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 25:1
If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel spoke, the protector of Israel spoke to me. The one who rules fairly among men, the one who rules in the fear of God,
2 Kings 24:4
Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them.
Job 22:9
you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
Job 24:9
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
Job 29:7-17
When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,
Psalm 68:5
He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.
Psalm 72:2-4
Then he will judge your people fairly, and your oppressed ones equitably.
Psalm 94:6
They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.
Psalm 94:21
They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.
Proverbs 6:17
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 23:10
Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
Isaiah 1:15-20
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.
Isaiah 1:23
Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.
Jeremiah 5:28
That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.
Jeremiah 7:5-6
You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.
Jeremiah 9:24
If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the Lord, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things," says the Lord.
Jeremiah 26:16
Then the officials and all the people rendered their verdict to the priests and the prophets. They said, "This man should not be condemned to die. For he has spoken to us under the authority of the Lord our God."
Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.
Joel 3:19
Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
Micah 3:11
Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the Lord and say, "The Lord is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!"
Zechariah 7:9-11
"The Lord who rules over all said, 'Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.
Malachi 3:5
"I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me," says the Lord who rules over all.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.