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Deu 16:19 |
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. |
  
  
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Deu 27:19 |
Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. |
  
  
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Exd 22:21 |
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. |
  
  
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Exd 22:22 |
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. |
  
  
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Exd 23:2 |
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]: |
  
  
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Exd 23:6 |
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. |
  
  
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Exd 23:9 |
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. |
  
  
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1Sa 12:3 |
Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. |
  
  
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1Sa 12:4 |
And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand. |
  
  
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Job 22:8 |
But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. |
  
  
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Job 22:9 |
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. |
  
  
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Job 29:11 |
When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me: |
  
  
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Job 29:12 |
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him. |
  
  
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Job 29:13 |
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. |
  
  
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Job 29:14 |
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem. |
  
  
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Job 29:15 |
I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame. |
  
  
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Job 29:16 |
I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. |
  
  
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Job 29:17 |
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. |
  
  
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Psa 82:1 |
[[A Psalm of Asaph.]] God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. |
  
  
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Psa 82:2 |
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. |
  
  
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Psa 82:3 |
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. |
  
  
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Psa 82:4 |
Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked. |
  
  
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Psa 82:5 |
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. |
  
  
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Psa 94:3 |
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? |
  
  
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Psa 94:4 |
[How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? |
  
  
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Psa 94:5 |
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. |
  
  
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Psa 94:6 |
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. |
  
  
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Psa 94:20 |
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? |
  
  
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Psa 94:21 |
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. |
  
  
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Pro 22:22 |
Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: |
  
  
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Pro 22:23 |
For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them. |
  
  
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Pro 31:5 |
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. |
  
  
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Ecc 5:8 |
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they. |
  
  
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Isa 1:23 |
Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. |
  
  
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Isa 3:15 |
What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts. |
  
  
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Isa 33:15 |
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; |
  
  
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Jer 5:28 |
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass 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 judge. |
  
  
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Jer 22:3 |
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled 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. |
  
  
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Eze 22:7 |
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. |
  
  
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Eze 22:29 |
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. |
  
  
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Amo 5:7 |
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, |
  
  
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Amo 5:8 |
[Seek him] that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name: |
  
  
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Amo 5:9 |
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. |
  
  
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Amo 5:10 |
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. |
  
  
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Amo 5:11 |
Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. |
  
  
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Amo 5:12 |
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right]. |
  
  
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Mic 2:1 |
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. |
  
  
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Mic 2:2 |
And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. |
  
  
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Mic 7:3 |
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. |
  
  
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Zec 7:10 |
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. |
  
  
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Mal 3:5 |
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. |
  
  
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Luk 3:14 |
And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse [any] falsely; and be content with your wages. |
  
  
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Jam 2:6 |
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? |