Job 29:12

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.