Bible Cross References
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Job 29:16
I [was] a father to the poor, And I searched out the case [that] I did not know.
Job 31:13
"If I have despised the cause of my male or female servant When they complained against me,
Job 31:21
If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, When I saw I had help in the gate;
Psalm 31:7
I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy, For You have considered my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities,
Psalm 41:1
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed [is] he who considers the poor; The LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Galatians 6:1
Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who [are] spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
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Proverbs 21:13
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be heard.
1 Samuel 25:9-11
9
So when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and waited.
10
Then Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who [is] David, and who [is] the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master.
11
"Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] to men when I do not know where they [are] from?"
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat, they are sleek; Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the fatherless; Yet they prosper, And the right of the needy they do not defend.
Jeremiah 22:15-17
15
"Shall you reign because you enclose [yourself] in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, And do justice and righteousness? Then [it was] well with him.
16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; Then [it was] well. [Was] not this knowing Me?" says the LORD.
17
"Yet your eyes and your heart [are] for nothing but your covetousness, For shedding innocent blood, And practicing oppression and violence."
Ezekiel 22:7
"In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 22:29-31
29
"The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger.
30
"So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
31
"Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads," says the Lord GOD.
Micah 3:1-4
1
And I said: "Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: [Is it] not for you to know justice?
2
You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;
3
Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop [them] in pieces Like [meat] for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron."
4
Then they will cry to the LORD, But He will not hear them; He will even hide His face from them at that time, Because they have been evil in their deeds.