Proverbs 23:10

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 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.

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

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

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.

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

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

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

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

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

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

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.

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

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.’

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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 shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

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

He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

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

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

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.

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.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

“ ‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

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

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

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

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

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

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;

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.

“Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,” says Yahweh.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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

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

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

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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.