Job 22:9
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Job 24:21
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21 “They wrong the barren, childless woman,
and do no good to the widow.
Job 24:3
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3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
they (A)take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Ezekiel 22:7
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7 Father and mother (A)are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner (B)suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow (C)are wronged in you.
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Isaiah 10:2
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2 to turn aside the needy from justice
and (A)to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be their spoil,
and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Job 31:21
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Luke 18:3-5
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3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, (A)‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”
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Malachi 3:5
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5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be (A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those (B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, (C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
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Ezekiel 30:22
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22 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and (A)will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.
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Isaiah 1:23
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23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone (A)loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
(B)They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Isaiah 1:17
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17 learn to do good;
(A)seek justice,
correct oppression;
(B)bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow's cause.
Psalm 94:6
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Psalm 37:17
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Psalm 10:15
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15 (A)Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
(B)call his wickedness to account till you find none.
Job 31:16-18
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16 “If I have (A)withheld anything that the poor desired,
or have (B)caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17 or have eaten my morsel alone,
and the fatherless has not eaten of it
18 (for from my youth the fatherless[a] grew up with me as with a father,
and from my mother's womb I guided the widow[b]),
Job 29:12-13
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12 because I (A)delivered the poor who cried for help,
and the fatherless who had none to help him.
13 (B)The blessing of him who was (C)about to perish came upon me,
and I caused (D)the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Deuteronomy 27:19
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19 (A)“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
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Exodus 22:21-24
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21 (A)“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 22 (B)You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you do mistreat them, and they (C)cry out to me, I will surely (D)hear their cry, 24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and (E)your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
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