Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThey feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThough these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
Job
WisdomWhat man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.
Joshua
HistoryI have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsRehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Ezra
HistoryThe children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Ezra
HistoryThey say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
Genesis
Law / MosesBut mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew
GospelsYe stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Acts
History / LukeThou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThis is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
John
GospelsAnd there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
2 Samuel
HistoryIn his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.