Exodus 22:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² You shall not abuse any widow or orphan.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Common English Bible

²² Don’t treat any widow or orphan badly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.

Exodus 22:22 Cross References

Job 31:16

“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail

Job 34:28

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—

Psalm 10:14

But you do see! Indeed, you note trouble and grief, that you may take it into your hands; the helpless commit themselves to you; you have been the helper of the orphan.

Psalm 34:7

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and delivers them.

Proverbs 22:23

for the Lord pleads their cause and despoils of life those who despoil them.

Proverbs 23:10

Do not remove an ancient landmark or encroach on the fields of orphans,

Proverbs 23:11

for their vindicator is strong; he will plead their cause against you.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause does not come before them.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, to make widows their spoil and to plunder orphans!

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,

Jeremiah 7:7

then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave to your ancestors forever and ever.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.

Zechariah 7:10

do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 10:18

who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful that you do not entertain a mean thought, thinking, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and therefore view your needy neighbor with hostility and give nothing; your neighbor might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.

Deuteronomy 24:17

“You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:18

Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.

Deuteronomy 27:19

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who deprives an alien, an orphan, or a widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.