Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

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Bible References

Considereth

Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Job 31:13
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
Psalm 31:7
I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;
Psalm 41:1
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Galatians 6:1
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

But

Proverbs 21:13
Whosoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
1 Samuel 25:9
And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat, they shine: yea, they pass over the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not defend.
Jeremiah 22:15
Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness, and then it was well with him?
Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they made light of father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Micah 3:1
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?

General references

Matthew 24:39
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.