Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhile I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John
Gospels / JohnBut if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
Luke
GospelsAnd now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.
Ruth
HistoryAs the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
1 Kings
HistoryTo the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBe thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
Ruth
HistorySaying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBut if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
Genesis
LawAnd when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
Matthew
GospelsOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesTo understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Proverbs
WisdomIf ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.