Job 29:16
I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently.
Proverbs 29:7
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor, but the ungodly regardeth no understanding.
Exodus 18:26
And they judged the people at all seasons, and brought the hard causes unto Moses: and judged all small matters themselves.
Deuteronomy 13:14
Then seek and make search and enquire diligently. If it be true, and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought among you:
Deuteronomy 17:8-10
If a matter be too hard for thee in judgment between blood and blood, plea and plea, stroke and stroke in matters of strife within thy cities: Then arise and get thee up unto the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen,
1 Kings 3:16-28
Then came there two women that were harlots unto the king and stood before him.
Esther 2:7
and he nourished Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and she was a fair and beautiful damsel. And when her father and mother died, Mordecai received her as his own daughter.
Job 24:4
that thrust the poor out of the way, and oppress the simple of the world together.
Job 31:18
For mercy grew up with me from my youth, and compassion from my mother's womb.
Psalm 68:5
He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the honour of God to keep a thing secret; but the king's honour is to search out a thing.
Ephesians 5:1
Be ye followers of God as dear children,
James 1:27
Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.