Exodus 23:2-
3 Thou shalt not
follow a multitude to [
do] evil; neither shalt thou
speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [
judgment]: ... Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Deuteronomy 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.
Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed [
be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
2 Chronicles 19:7 Wherefore now
let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [
it]: for [
there is]
no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor
respect of persons, nor
taking of gifts.
Job 31:13 If I did despise
the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant,
when they contended with me;
Job 31:21-
22 If I have
lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
when I saw my help in the gate: ... [
Then]
let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the
bone.
Psalms 82:3-
4 Defend the poor and fatherless:
do justice to the afflicted and needy. ...
Deliver the poor and needy:
rid [
them] out of the hand of the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 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.
Isaiah 10:1-
2 Woe unto
them that decree unrighteous decrees, and
that write grievousness [
which] they have prescribed; ... To
turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people,
that widows may be their prey, and [
that] they may rob the fatherless!
Jeremiah 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.
Jeremiah 6:28 They [
are]
all grievous revolters,
walking with slanders:
[they are] brass and iron; they [
are] all
corrupters.
Jeremiah 7:6 [
If] ye
oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow,
and shed not innocent blood in this place,
neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Amos 5:11-
12 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. ... 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].
Micah 3:1-
4 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel;
[Is it] not for you to know judgment? ...
Then shall they
cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them:
he will even hide his face from them at that time,
as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
Zephaniah 3:1-
4 Woe to
her that is filthy and polluted,
to the oppressing city! ... Her prophets [
are]
light [
and] treacherous persons:
her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Malachi 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.
James 2:5-
6 Hearken, my beloved brethren,
Hath not God chosen
the poor of this world
rich in faith, and
heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? ... But
ye have despised the poor.
Do not rich men oppress you,
and draw you before the judgment seats?
