Isaiah 1:17

Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

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Exodus 23:2
“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

Exodus 23:6
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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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2 Kings 17:13
Yet Yahweh testified to Israel and to Judah, by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Jeremiah 18:8
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

Ezekiel 18:21
“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

Acts 3:19
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

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Job 28:28
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Proverbs 16:17
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

1 Peter 3:11
Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

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Isaiah 1:10
Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Micah 6:6
How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

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Isaiah 51:22
Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.

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Jeremiah 7:4
Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’

Amos 5:14
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

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Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

Luke 18:4
He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

Luke 18:5
yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”

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1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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Psalms 26:6
I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

Hebrews 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,

James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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