Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Exodus
Law / MosesWherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?
Mark
GospelsThese were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
Ruth
HistoryThen answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job
WisdomAnd the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
Joshua
HistoryBeside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Matthew
GospelsAnd ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesDoth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job
Wisdom / JobThe remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
HistoryJames, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
James
General EpistlesThat they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.
Joshua
HistoryNow they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.
Mark
GospelsBut Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
Numbers
LawAnd ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.