Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
General references
Bible References
Defend
Psalm 10:18
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and clothing.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Do
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 22:3
Thus says the LORD; Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
General references
Exodus 23:3
Neither shall you be partial to a poor man in his cause.
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there is a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that perverts the justice due the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
2 Kings 8:3
And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Isaiah 59:14
And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.