Proverbs 29:7

Proverbs 29:7
The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

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Exodus 18:26
They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14
then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,

Deuteronomy 17:8
If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

Deuteronomy 17:9
You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

Deuteronomy 17:10
You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.

1 Kings 3:16
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

1 Kings 3:17
The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

1 Kings 3:18
The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

1 Kings 3:19
This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.

1 Kings 3:20
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

1 Kings 3:21
When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.”

1 Kings 3:22
The other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.

1 Kings 3:23
Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’ ”

1 Kings 3:24
The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.

1 Kings 3:25
The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

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Leviticus 19:10
You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

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

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 3:12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

Isaiah 3:13
Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

Isaiah 3:14
Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

James 2:1
My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality.

James 2:3
and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

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

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?

James 2:7
Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

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Deuteronomy 14:29
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Deuteronomy 15:10
You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

Psalms 37:26
All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

Psalms 112:5
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Ezekiel 18:8
he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Matthew 18:32
Then his lord called him in and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

Matthew 18:33
Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

Matthew 18:34
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.

Luke 19:8
Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

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1 Kings 3:26
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

1 Kings 3:27
Then the king answered, “Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”

1 Kings 3:28
All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

Proverbs 8:15
By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

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Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

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Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Proverbs 17:21
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Proverbs 23:13
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

Proverbs 29:3
Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Proverbs 29:15
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Proverbs 29:16
When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.

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Job 34:30
that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.

Proverbs 28:2
In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

Proverbs 29:4
The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Proverbs 29:8
Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

Proverbs 29:10
The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.

Proverbs 29:11
A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

Proverbs 29:13
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

Proverbs 29:20
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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Judges 20:34
Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

Proverbs 23:35
“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.”

Proverbs 24:12
If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

Isaiah 42:25
Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”

Isaiah 44:18
They don’t know, neither do they consider, for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see, and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

Isaiah 44:19
No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”

Matthew 13:13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

Matthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;

Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’

Matthew 24:39
and they didn’t know until the flood came and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Luke 19:44
and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

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1 Samuel 25:9
When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited.

1 Samuel 25:10
Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

1 Samuel 25:11
Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”

Jeremiah 22:15
“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

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

Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

Ezekiel 22:30
“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

Ezekiel 22:31
Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Micah 3:1
I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

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.

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Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

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 3:5
Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray—for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

Luke 10:31
By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

Luke 10:32
In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

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Proverbs 19:4
Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

Ezekiel 18:17
who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

Matthew 18:27
The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.

Matthew 18:28
“But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’

Matthew 18:29
“So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’

Matthew 18:30
He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due.

Matthew 18:31
So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done.

Matthew 18:35
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

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Isaiah 33:8
The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.

Luke 18:2
saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man.

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Matthew 26:2
“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

John 10:13
The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep.

John 12:6
Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

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John 14:26
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

John 16:13
However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

1 John 2:20
You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

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Psalms 14:1
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

Acts 13:41
‘Behold, you scoffers! Wonder and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

2 Peter 3:5
For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

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Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

Isaiah 35:4
Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

Luke 22:32
but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

Acts 11:29
As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Romans 15:1
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Romans 15:2
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

1 Corinthians 8:12
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Hebrews 10:24
Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Hebrews 13:3
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

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1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

1 Corinthians 10:33
even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

2 Thessalonians 3:9
This was not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

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

James 1:24
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

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Job 31:13
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

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

James 2:8
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

James 2:9
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

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