Standing Up for Others
6 passages
- Proverbs 31:8–9
8Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed. 9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
Read it in context - Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
Read it in context - Psalm 82:3
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Read it in context - Ecclesiastes 4:10
For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!
Read it in context - Proverbs 25:26
Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
Read it in context - James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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