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Deuteronomy 24:17
You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.
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Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.
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Deuteronomy 27:19
‘ Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say,‘ Amen!’
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Zechariah 7:10
You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow human being.’
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Isaiah 1:23
Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.
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James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do what is right! Promote justice! Give the oppressed reason to celebrate! Take up the cause of the orphan! Defend the rights of the widow!
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Isaiah 10:2
to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.
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Deuteronomy 10:18
who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.
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Psalms 94:6-7
They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.Then they say,“ The LORD does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”