Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
Proverbs 29:7
The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.
Exodus 18:26
And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.
Deuteronomy 13:14
Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;
Deuteronomy 17:8-10
If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God;
1 Kings 3:16-28
Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;
Esther 2:7
And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.
Job 24:4
The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
Job 31:18
(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)
Psalm 68:5
A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.
Ephesians 5:1
Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;
James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.