Luke 18:3
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."
Deuteronomy 27:19
'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
2 Samuel 14:5-24
The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Isaiah 1:21-23
How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.
Luke 18:7-8
Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
Romans 13:3-4
For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,