Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all who are appointed to destruction.
Psalm 82:3-4
Defend the weak and fatherless. Protect the rights of the oppressed and the poor.
1 Samuel 19:4-7
Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul. You should not commit a sin against your servant David, he said. He has not sinned against you. He has in fact done some very fine things for you.
1 Samuel 20:32
Jonathan asked his father: Why should he be killed? What has he done?
1 Samuel 22:14-15
Ahimelech asked the king: But whom among all your officials can you trust like David? Your Majesty, he is your son-in-law, the commander of your bodyguard. He is honored in your own household.
Esther 4:13-16
Mordecai sent this answer back to Esther: Do not have the idea that you in the king's house will be safe from the fate of all the Jews.
Job 29:9
The nobles refrained from talking, and laid their hands on their mouths.
Job 29:12-17
This is because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.
Psalm 79:11
Let the groans of prisoners come into your presence. With your powerful arm (according to the greatness of your power) rescue those who are condemned to death.
Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too exalted (lofty) for a fool. He does not open his mouth at the gate.
Proverbs 24:11-12
If you do not deliver those who are condemned to death,
Jeremiah 26:16-19
The judges and the other people told the priests and prophets: Since Jeremiah only told us what Jehovah our God had said, we do not think he deserves to die.
Jeremiah 26:24
Ahikam, son of Shaphan, supported Jeremiah. So Jeremiah was not handed over to the people to be put to death.
Jeremiah 38:7-10
Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch (officer) who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate.
John 7:51
Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to find out what he has done?