Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
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Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
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Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Matthew 25:35
for I was hungry and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.
2 Chronicles 28:15
The men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the plunder clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.
Proverbs 31:20
She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
Isaiah 21:14
They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
Luke 10:34
came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
1 Corinthians 16:15
Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—
1 Corinthians 16:16
that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.
2 Corinthians 1:11
you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
Philippians 4:3
Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
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Genesis 45:8
So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Judges 17:10
Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.
Isaiah 22:21
and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
Judges 18:19
They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
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Proverbs 29:7
The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Exodus 18:26
They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
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Job 31:16
“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Job 31:18
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
Job 31:20
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
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Psalms 72:12
For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
Psalms 72:13
He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.
Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
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