Give Justice to the Poor and the Orphans

Justice For The Poor

 

Psalm 140:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

Leviticus 19:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

James 1:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Jeremiah 22:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Luke 12:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Proverbs 31:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Exodus 23:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.

Galatians 2:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

Acts 9:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.

Luke 4:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Mark 14:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.

Matthew 26:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.

Ezekiel 22:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.

Jeremiah 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

They have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Isaiah 41:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Psalm 68:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 12:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

Deuteronomy 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess—

Leviticus 25:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

Leviticus 23:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”