Proverbs 31:8

Open your mouth for the mute,
For the rights of all the unfortunate.

Psalm 82:3-4

Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

Then Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Do not let the king sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his deeds have been very beneficial to you.

1 Samuel 20:32

But Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

1 Samuel 22:14-15

Then Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, even the king’s son-in-law, who is captain over your guard, and is honored in your house?

Esther 4:13-16

Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews.

Job 29:9

“The princes stopped talking
And put their hands on their mouths;

Job 29:12-17

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.

Psalm 79:11

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of Your power preserve those who are doomed to die.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too exalted for a fool,
He does not open his mouth in the gate.

Proverbs 24:11-12

Deliver those who are being taken away to death,
And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back.

Jeremiah 26:16-19

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, “No death sentence for this man! For he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 26:24

But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to put him to death.

Jeremiah 38:7-10

But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin;

John 7:51

“Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

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Summary

Proverbs 31:8

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

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General references

Deuteronomy 25:1

Matthew 5:2

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