Psalm 82:3

Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.

Psalm 10:18

to help the fatherless and the poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

Jeremiah 22:16

Yea when he helped the oppressed and poor to their right, then prospered he well. From whence came this? But only because he had me before his eyes, sayeth the LORD.

Thus the LORD commandeth: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent: do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

Deuteronomy 10:18

but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Hinder not the right of the stranger nor of the fatherless, nor take widow's raiment to pledge.

Isaiah 1:17

Study to do righteously, and help the oppressed. Avenge the fatherless and defend the cause of widows. Come, let us show each his grief to other and make an atonement, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.

Jeremiah 5:28

hereof are they fat and wealthy, and are run away from me with shameful blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity.

James 1:27

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

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Summary

Psalm 82:3

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Defend

Psalm 10:18

Deuteronomy 10:18

Isaiah 1:17

Do

Jeremiah 5:28

Jeremiah 22:3

James 1:27

General references

Bible References

Defend

to help the fatherless and the poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

Study to do righteously, and help the oppressed. Avenge the fatherless and defend the cause of widows. Come, let us show each his grief to other and make an atonement, saith the LORD.

Do

hereof are they fat and wealthy, and are run away from me with shameful blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity.

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

General references

neither shalt thou paint a poor man's cause.

When there is strife between men, let them come unto the law, and let the judges justify the righteous and condemn the trespasser.

"'Cursed be he that hindereth the right of the stranger, fatherless and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

And at the seven years' end, when the woman was come again out of the land of the Philistines she went out to speak to the king for her house and for her land.

Moreover, I saw under the sun ungodliness in the stead of judgment, and iniquity instead of righteousness.

And therefore is equity gone aside, and righteousness standeth far off; truth is fallen down in the street, and the thing that is plain and open, may not be showed.