Psalms 82:4

Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

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Genesis 31:36
Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

1 Samuel 19:5
for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

1 Samuel 20:32
Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

Psalms 25:3
Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Psalms 69:4
Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

Matthew 27:23
But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let him be crucified!”

Luke 23:32
There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.

John 7:51
“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

John 15:25
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

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Exodus 22:8
If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbor’s goods.

Exodus 22:9
For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

Exodus 22:28
“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Psalms 32:6
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Psalms 138:1
I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.

John 10:35
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

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Exodus 22:21
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:23
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Exodus 23:1
“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

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.

Exodus 23:7
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

Exodus 23:9
“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:33
“ ‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

Leviticus 19:34
The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

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Leviticus 19:35
“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

Leviticus 19:36
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 16:3
Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

Ezekiel 45:10
“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

Ezekiel 45:11
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer.

Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

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Deuteronomy 1:13
Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”

Deuteronomy 1:14
You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”

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

Deuteronomy 1:16
I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

1 Samuel 7:16
He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

2 Chronicles 19:5
He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

1 Corinthians 6:5
I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

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Exodus 23:3
You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

Leviticus 19:11
“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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

Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Psalms 146:9
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

Proverbs 20:14
“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

Proverbs 31:5
lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

Hosea 14:3
Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

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Judges 5:10
“Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.

Judges 10:4
He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

Judges 12:14
He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.

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2 Samuel 14:4
When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

2 Kings 4:13
He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’ ” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”

2 Kings 6:26
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

2 Kings 8:3
At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.

2 Kings 8:6
When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”

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Esther 3:8
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

Esther 3:9
If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

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

Esther 3:11
The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

Esther 3:12
Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

Esther 3:13
Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

Acts 7:19
The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

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Job 22:5
Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

Job 22:6
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:7
You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Job 22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

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

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Psalms 2:10
Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

Psalms 45:5
Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Psalms 45:8
All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

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Psalms 9:7
But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

Psalms 9:8
He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

Psalms 9:9
Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

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Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Psalms 10:8
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

Psalms 10:9
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Psalms 10:10
The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

Psalms 64:4
to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

Psalms 64:6
They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.

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2 Samuel 8:15
David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

2 Samuel 23:2
“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

2 Samuel 23:4
shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

1 Kings 10:8
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

Psalms 45:6
Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

Psalms 75:2
When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.

Isaiah 11:5
Righteousness will be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his waist.

Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

Jeremiah 33:15
“In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. He will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Hebrews 1:8
But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

Revelation 19:11
I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

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Psalms 75:4
I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

Psalms 94:8
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 8:5
You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

Proverbs 9:6
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

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Job 5:15
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

Job 5:16
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Psalms 35:10
All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

Psalms 102:17
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

Psalms 102:20
to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death,

Psalms 109:31
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Psalms 140:12
I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

Isaiah 41:17
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Zephaniah 3:12
But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

Matthew 5:3
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 11:5
the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

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2 Chronicles 19:11
Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good.”

Psalms 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

Proverbs 18:5
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

Proverbs 28:21
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

Jeremiah 5:4
Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Jeremiah 7:7
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.

Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

John 7:24
Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

1 Timothy 5:21
I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

James 2:4
haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

1 Peter 1:17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

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Proverbs 27:5
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Galatians 2:11
But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

Titus 2:15
Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

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Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Amos 5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,

Micah 3:2
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

Micah 3:3
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.

Micah 3:10
who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

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Nehemiah 5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

Job 34:19
He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor, for they all are the work of his hands.

Job 36:6
He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

Psalms 9:12
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Proverbs 22:23
for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Jeremiah 7:5
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

Jeremiah 7:6
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,

James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?

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Jeremiah 22:18
Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They won’t lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They won’t lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’

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Jeremiah 22:19
He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

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Jeremiah 38:8
Ebedmelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,

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Psalms 76:9
when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.

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

Zephaniah 2:3
Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

Hebrews 10:30
For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me. I will repay,” says the Lord. Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

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Proverbs 20:26
A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.

Isaiah 32:7
The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Isaiah 59:4
No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Isaiah 59:14
Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Micah 3:4
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

Micah 7:5
Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!

Zephaniah 3:2
She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.

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Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Proverbs 24:24
He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

Ecclesiastes 3:16
Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Isaiah 10:1
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees

Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

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Luke 3:14
Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

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Psalms 40:17
But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

Psalms 70:5
But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.

Psalms 74:21
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Psalms 86:1
Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Psalms 109:22
for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Luke 7:22
Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Hebrews 7:25
Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

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Acts 9:2
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Acts 9:14
Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

Acts 22:5
as also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

Acts 26:12
“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

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Ecclesiastes 8:2
I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

Ecclesiastes 8:3
Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

Ecclesiastes 8:4
for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.

Romans 13:6
For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.

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2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore we know no one according to the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

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Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

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