Proverbs 29:7

Proverbs 29:7
The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.

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Exodus 18:26
And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14
Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

Deuteronomy 17:8
If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God;

Deuteronomy 17:9
And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:

Deuteronomy 17:10
And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:

1 Kings 3:16
Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;

1 Kings 3:17
And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.

1 Kings 3:18
And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only.

1 Kings 3:19
In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

1 Kings 3:20
And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.

1 Kings 3:21
And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.

1 Kings 3:22
And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king.

1 Kings 3:23
Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living.

1 Kings 3:24
Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king.

1 Kings 3:25
And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.

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Leviticus 19:10
And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.

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.

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.

Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

Isaiah 3:13
The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.

Isaiah 3:14
The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

Isaiah 3:15
By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

James 2:1
My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.

James 2:3
And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;

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?

James 2:7
Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?

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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 15:10
But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.

Psalms 37:26
All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

Psalms 112:5
All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.

Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.

Proverbs 28:8
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

Ezekiel 18:8
And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,

Daniel 4:27
For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.

Matthew 18:32
Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me:

Matthew 18:33
Was it not right for you to have mercy on the other servant, even as I had mercy on you?

Matthew 18:34
And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.

Luke 19:8
And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.

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1 Kings 3:26
Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.

1 Kings 3:27
Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.

1 Kings 3:28
And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.

Proverbs 8:15
Through me kings have their power, and rulers give right decisions.

Proverbs 12:10
An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.

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Job 29:13
The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

Job 29:14
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

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Proverbs 10:1
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 17:21
He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

Proverbs 23:13
Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

Proverbs 29:3
A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.

Proverbs 29:15
The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

Proverbs 29:16
When evil men are in power, wrongdoing is increased; but the upright will have pleasure when they see their downfall.

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Job 34:30
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Proverbs 28:2
Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.

Proverbs 29:4
A king, by right rule, makes the land safe; but one full of desires makes it a waste.

Proverbs 29:5
A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.

Proverbs 29:8
Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.

Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.

Proverbs 29:10
Men of blood are haters of the good man, and evil-doers go after his soul.

Proverbs 29:11
A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.

Proverbs 29:13
The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally.

Proverbs 29:20
Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.

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Judges 20:34
And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting became more violent; but the children of Benjamin were not conscious that evil was coming on them.

Proverbs 23:35
They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

Proverbs 24:12
If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?

Isaiah 42:25
For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.

Isaiah 44:18
They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

Isaiah 44:19
And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

Matthew 13:13
For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

Matthew 13:14
And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

Matthew 13:15
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

Matthew 24:39
And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

Luke 19:44
And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

John 3:20
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

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1 Samuel 25:9
And when David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal, in David's name, and said nothing more.

1 Samuel 25:10
And Nabal gave them his answer and said, Who is David? who is the son of Jesse? there are a number of servants in these days running away from their masters.

1 Samuel 25:11
Am I to take my bread and my wine and the meat I have got ready for my wool-cutters and give it to men coming from I have no idea where?

Jeremiah 22:15
Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

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.

Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

Ezekiel 22:30
And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.

Ezekiel 22:31
And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.

Micah 3:1
And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?

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.

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Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

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 3:5
This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.

Luke 10:31
And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.

Luke 10:32
And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side.

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Proverbs 19:4
Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.

Ezekiel 18:17
Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.

Matthew 18:27
And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt.

Matthew 18:28
But that servant went out, and meeting one of the other servants, who was in debt to him for one hundred pence, he took him by the throat, saying, Make payment of your debt.

Matthew 18:29
So that servant went down on his face, requesting him and saying, Give me time and I will make payment to you.

Matthew 18:30
And he would not: but went and put him into prison till he had made payment of the debt.

Matthew 18:31
So when the other servants saw what was done they were very sad, and came and gave word to their lord of what had been done.

Matthew 18:35
So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.

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Isaiah 33:8
The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.

Luke 18:2
Saying, There was a judge in a certain town, who had no fear of God or respect for man:

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Matthew 26:2
After two days is the Passover, and the Son of man will be given up to the death of the cross.

John 10:13
Because he is a servant he has no interest in the sheep.

John 12:6
(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)

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John 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will be your teacher in all things and will put you in mind of everything I have said to you.

John 16:13
However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come.

1 John 2:20
And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

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Psalms 14:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Acts 13:41
See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.

Romans 1:28
And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

2 Peter 3:5
But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

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Isaiah 35:3
Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.

Isaiah 35:4
Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.

Luke 22:32
But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

Acts 11:29
And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea:

Romans 12:15
Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

Romans 15:1
We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.

Romans 15:2
Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.

1 Corinthians 8:12
And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:22
To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.

Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.

Hebrews 10:24
And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;

Hebrews 13:3
Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.

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1 Corinthians 8:13
For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.

1 Corinthians 10:33
Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5:11
So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

2 Thessalonians 3:9
Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.

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James 1:23
Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;

James 1:24
For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.

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Job 31:13
If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

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 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:

James 2:8
But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:

James 2:9
But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

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