Exodus 22:26
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26 (A)If you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.
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Deuteronomy 10:18
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18 (A)He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
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Deuteronomy 24:6
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6 “No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes [a]one’s living in pledge.
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- Deuteronomy 24:6 life
Deuteronomy 24:10
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10 “When you (A)lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
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Deuteronomy 24:12
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12 And if the man is poor, you shall not [a]keep his pledge overnight.
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- Deuteronomy 24:12 Lit. sleep with his pledge
Deuteronomy 24:17
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17 (A)“You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, (B)nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge.
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Job 22:6
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6 For you have (A)taken pledges from your brother for no reason,
And stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 22:9
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9 You have sent widows away empty,
And the [a]strength of the fatherless was crushed.
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- Job 22:9 Lit. arms
Job 24:3
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3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
They (A)take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
Job 24:21
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21 For he [a]preys on the barren who do not bear,
And does no good for the widow.
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- Job 24:21 Lit. feeds on
Psalm 68:5
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5 (A)A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
Psalm 146:9
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9 (A)The Lord watches over the strangers;
He relieves the fatherless and widow;
(B)But the way of the wicked He [a]turns upside down.
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- Psalm 146:9 Lit. makes crooked
Proverbs 23:10
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10 Do not remove the ancient [a]landmark,
Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;
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- Proverbs 23:10 boundary
Isaiah 1:17
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17 Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Rebuke [a]the oppressor;
[b]Defend the fatherless,
Plead for the widow.
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- Isaiah 1:17 Some ancient vss. the oppressed
- Isaiah 1:17 Vindicate
Jeremiah 7:5
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5 “For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly (A)execute [a]judgment between a man and his neighbor,
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- Jeremiah 7:5 justice
Jeremiah 7:6
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6 if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, (A)or walk after other gods to your hurt,
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Jeremiah 21:12
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12 O house of David! Thus says the Lord:
(A)“Execute[a] judgment (B)in the morning;
And deliver him who is plundered
Out of the hand of the oppressor,
Lest My fury go forth like fire
And burn so that no one can quench it,
Because of the evil of your doings.
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- Jeremiah 21:12 Dispense justice
Jeremiah 22:3
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3 Thus says the Lord: (A)“Execute[a] judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the (B)fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
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- Jeremiah 22:3 Dispense justice
Ezekiel 18:5-9
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5 But if a man is just
And does what is lawful and right;
6 (A)If he has not eaten [a]on the mountains,
Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
Nor (B)defiled his neighbor’s wife,
Nor approached (C)a woman during her impurity;
7 If he has not (D)oppressed anyone,
But has restored to the debtor his (E)pledge;
Has robbed no one by violence,
But has (F)given his bread to the hungry
And covered the naked with (G)clothing;
8 If he has not [b]exacted (H)usury
Nor taken any increase,
But has withdrawn his hand from iniquity
And (I)executed true [c]judgment between man and man;
9 If he has walked in My statutes
And kept My judgments faithfully—
He is just;
He shall surely (J)live!”
Says the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 18:6 At the mountain shrines
- Ezekiel 18:8 Lent money at interest
- Ezekiel 18:8 justice
Ezekiel 18:12
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12 If he has oppressed the poor and needy,
Robbed by violence,
Not restored the pledge,
Lifted his eyes to the idols,
Or (A)committed abomination;
Zechariah 7:9-10
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9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:
(A)‘Execute true justice,
Show [a]mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
10 (B)Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
(C)Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’
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- Zechariah 7:9 Or lovingkindness
Malachi 3:5
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5 And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
(A)Against perjurers,
Against those who (B)exploit wage earners and (C)widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
James 1:27
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27 (A)Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: (B)to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, (C)and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
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