Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the {needy}.
Psalm 82:3-4
Judge [on behalf of the] helpless and [the] orphan; provide justice [to the] afflicted and [the] poor.
1 Samuel 19:4-7
So Jonathan spoke well about David to his father Saul and said to him, "The king should not sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his service for you [has been] very good.
1 Samuel 20:32
But Jonathan answered his father Saul and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"
1 Samuel 22:14-15
But Ahimelech answered the king and said, "And who among all your servants [is] as faithful as David? He [is] the son-in-law of the king who moves [quickly] to safeguard you and is honored in your house.
Esther 4:13-16
Then Mordecai told [them] to reply to Esther: "Do not think that your life will be saved [in] the palace of the king more than all the Jews.
Job 29:9
Officials refrained from talking, and they laid [their] hand on their mouth.
Job 29:12-17
because I saved [the] needy who cried for help, and [I saved] [the] orphan for whom [there was] no helper.
Psalm 79:11
Let the groaning of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your {power}, spare [the] children [appointed to] death.
Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom [is too] high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth.
Proverbs 24:11-12
Rescue those who are led away to the death and those who stagger to the slaughter. If you hold back,
Jeremiah 26:16-19
Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, "{This man does not deserve} a sentence of death, for in the name of Yahweh our God, he has spoken to us."
Jeremiah 26:24
However, the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not given into the hand of the people to put him to death.
Jeremiah 38:7-10
When Ebed-melech the Cushite, {a eunuch} who [was] in the house of the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the pit--now the king [was] sitting at the Gate of Benjamin--
John 7:51
"Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, [does it]?"