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Psalms 82:3
Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.

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Exodus 22:8
If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.

Exodus 22:9
In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.

Exodus 22:28
You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your people.

Psalms 32:6
For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

Psalms 138:1
Of David. I will give you praise with all my heart: I will make melody to you before the gods.

John 10:35
If he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Writings may not be broken),

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Exodus 22:21
Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:1
Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

Exodus 23:9
Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.

Leviticus 19:11
Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

Leviticus 19:33
And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;

Leviticus 19:34
Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 14:29
And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 24:17
Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

Job 24:3
They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

Job 31:21
If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

Proverbs 20:14
A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

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Leviticus 19:35
Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

Leviticus 19:36
Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

Isaiah 16:3
Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones.

Ezekiel 45:10
Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.

Ezekiel 45:11
The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer.

Ezekiel 45:12
And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels

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Deuteronomy 1:13
Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

Deuteronomy 1:14
And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.

Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.

Deuteronomy 1:16
And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

1 Samuel 7:16
From year to year he went in turn to Beth-el and Gilgal and Mizpah, judging Israel in all those places.

2 Chronicles 19:5
And he put judges through all the land, in every walled town of Judah,

Jeremiah 5:4
Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

1 Corinthians 6:5
I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?

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Judges 5:10
Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.

Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.

Judges 12:14
He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years.

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2 Samuel 14:4
And the woman of Tekoa came to the king, and falling on her face, gave him honour and said, Give me help, O king.

2 Kings 4:13
And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.

2 Kings 6:26
And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king.

2 Kings 8:3
And when the seven years were ended, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king with a request for her house and her land.

2 Kings 8:6
And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to one of his unsexed servants, saying, Give her back all her property, and all the produce of her fields from the day when she went away from the land up till now.

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Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

Nehemiah 5:3
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.

Nehemiah 5:4
And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.

Nehemiah 5:5
But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

Nehemiah 5:6
And on hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry.

Nehemiah 5:8
And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

Nehemiah 5:9
And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

Nehemiah 5:11
Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

Nehemiah 5:12
Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.

Nehemiah 5:13
And shaking out the folds of my robe, I said, So may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement; even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. And all the meeting of the people said, So be it, and gave praise to the Lord. And the people did as they had said.

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Esther 3:8
And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.

Esther 3:9
If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing: and I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's store-house.

Esther 3:10
And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of the Jews.

Esther 3:11
And the king said to Haman, The money is yours, and the people, to do with them whatever seems right to you.

Esther 3:12
Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were sent for, and they put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people: for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs; it was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring.

Esther 3:13
And letters were sent by the runners into every division of the kingdom ordering the death and destruction of all Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the same day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and the taking of all their goods by force.

Acts 7:19
He, having evil designs against our nation, was cruel to our fathers, and they were forced to put out their young children, so that they might not go on living.

Acts 9:2
And made a request for letters from him to the Synagogues of Damascus, so that if there were any of the Way there, men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Acts 9:14
And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name.

Acts 22:5
Of which the high priest will be a witness, and all the rulers, from whom I had letters to the brothers; and I went into Damascus, to take those who were there as prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment.

Acts 26:12
Then, when I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and orders of the chief priests,

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2 Chronicles 19:11
And now, Amariah, the chief priest, is over you in all questions to do with the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the head of the family of Judah, in everything to do with the king's business; and the Levites will be overseers for you. Be strong to do the work; and may the Lord be with the upright.

Job 34:19
Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

Job 34:28
So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

Psalms 12:5
Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

Proverbs 18:5
To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

Proverbs 22:22
Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

Proverbs 22:23
For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

Proverbs 28:21
It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.

Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Amos 5:15
Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

John 7:24
Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

James 2:6
But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

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Psalms 9:7
But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.

Psalms 9:8
And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.

Psalms 9:9
The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;

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Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

Psalms 10:8
He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

Psalms 10:9
He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

Psalms 10:10
The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

Psalms 64:4
So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.

Psalms 64:5
They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

Psalms 64:6
Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.

Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.

Matthew 26:4
And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.

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Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

Proverbs 20:26
A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.

Isaiah 32:7
The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.

Isaiah 59:4
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

Jeremiah 21:12
O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

Amos 5:10
They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.

Amos 6:12
Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

Micah 7:2
The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

Zephaniah 3:1
Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!

Zephaniah 3:2
She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

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Psalms 10:16
The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land.

Psalms 45:5
Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

Psalms 45:8
Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.

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2 Samuel 8:15
And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.

2 Samuel 23:2
The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.

2 Samuel 23:4
It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

1 Kings 10:8
Happy are your wives, happy are these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.

Psalms 2:10
So now be wise, you kings: take his teaching, you judges of the earth.

Psalms 45:6
Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.

Isaiah 11:5
And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.

Jeremiah 33:15
In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.

Zechariah 9:9
Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.

Hebrews 1:8
But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.

Revelation 19:11
And the heaven was open; and I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it was named Certain and True; and he is judging and making war in righteousness.

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Psalms 75:4
I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.

Psalms 94:8
Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 1:22
How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

Proverbs 8:5
Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.

Proverbs 9:6
Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

Revelation 3:17
For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.

Revelation 3:18
If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.

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Psalms 14:6
You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.

Psalms 18:27
For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.

Psalms 22:24
For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

Psalms 25:16
Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

Psalms 76:9
When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.)

Psalms 102:17
When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.

Psalms 102:20
Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;

Psalms 109:31
For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.

Proverbs 6:11
Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

Isaiah 66:2
For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

1 Peter 1:17
And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

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Isaiah 1:28
But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

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Isaiah 41:17
The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

Zephaniah 2:3
Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

Luke 7:22
And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

Hebrews 7:25
So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

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Isaiah 59:14
And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.

Micah 7:5
Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

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Jeremiah 22:18
So this is what the Lord has said about Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

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Jeremiah 22:19
They will do to him what they do to the dead body of an ass; his body will be pulled out and placed on the earth outside the doors of Jerusalem.

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Proverbs 24:24
He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.

Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

Jeremiah 5:27
As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

Amos 5:7
You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

Amos 5:11
So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

Micah 3:2
You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

Micah 3:10
They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

Micah 3:11
Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.

Habakkuk 1:4
For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.

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Jonah 4:11
And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?

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Exodus 23:2
Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

Exodus 23:6
Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

Proverbs 17:15
He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

Proverbs 17:23
A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

Proverbs 31:5
For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

Isaiah 10:1
Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

Isaiah 10:2
Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

Jeremiah 7:5
For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

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Job 6:27
Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

Job 22:5
Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

Job 22:6
For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

Job 22:7
You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

Job 22:8
For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.

Job 24:9
The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

Luke 3:14
And men of the army put questions to him, saying, And what have we to do? And he said to them, Do no violent acts to any man, and do not take anything without right, and let your payment be enough for you.

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Psalms 94:1
O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

Psalms 94:2
Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.

Psalms 94:3
How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

Psalms 94:4
Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

Psalms 94:5
Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

Luke 18:4
And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,

Luke 18:5
Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming.

Luke 18:7
And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

Luke 18:8
I say to you that he will quickly do right in their cause. But when the Son of man comes, will there be any faith on earth?

Hebrews 10:30
For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.

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Proverbs 31:8
Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

Ecclesiastes 8:2
I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.

Ecclesiastes 8:3
Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.

Ecclesiastes 8:4
The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?

Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.

Romans 13:4
For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.

Romans 13:6
For the same reason, make payment of taxes; because the authority is God's servant, to take care of such things at all times.

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Job 13:10
He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.

Job 36:6
His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;

Psalms 9:12
When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

Psalms 41:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

Psalms 75:2
When the right time has come, I will be the judge in righteousness.

Psalms 140:12
I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.

Amos 5:24
But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Matthew 11:5
The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

2 Corinthians 5:16
For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

1 Timothy 5:21
I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.

James 2:4
Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

James 2:5
Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

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Proverbs 27:5
Better is open protest than love kept secret.

Galatians 2:11
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.

Titus 2:15
On all these points give teaching and help, and make clear what is right with all authority. Let all men give you honour.

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