Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

General references

Bible References

Considereth

Job 29:16
“I was a father to the needy,
And I investigated the case which I did not know.
Job 31:13
“If I have despised the claim of my male or female slaves
When they filed a complaint against me,
Psalm 31:7
I will rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness,
Because You have seen my affliction;
You have known the troubles of my soul,
Psalm 41:1
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
The Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.
Galatians 6:1
Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.

But

Proverbs 21:13
He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor
Will also cry himself and not be answered.
1 Samuel 25:9
When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in David’s name; then they waited.
Jeremiah 5:28
‘They are fat, they are sleek,
They also excel in deeds of wickedness;
They do not plead the cause,
The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper;
And they do not defend the rights of the poor.
Jeremiah 22:15
“Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
And do justice and righteousness?
Then it was well with him.
Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.
Micah 3:1
And I said,
Hear now, heads of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel.
Is it not for you to know justice?

General references

Matthew 24:39
and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.