Exodus 22:22

Catholic Public Domain Version

You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.

Cross References

Job 31:16

If I have denied the poor what they wanted and have made the eyes of the widow wait;

Job 34:28

so that they caused the outcry of the needy to reach him, and he heard the voice of the poor.

Psalm 34:7

For, without cause, they have concealed their snare for me unto destruction. Over nothing, they have rebuked my soul.

Proverbs 22:23

For the Lord will judge his case, and he will pierce those who have pierced his soul.

Proverbs 23:10

Do not touch the boundaries of little ones, and do not enter into the field of the fatherless.

Proverbs 23:11

For their close relative is strong, and he will judge their case against you.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow's case is not brought before them.

Isaiah 10:2

in order to oppress the poor in judgment, and to do violence to the case of the humble of my people, in order that widows may be their prey, and that they might plunder the orphan.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not act with deceit toward the new arrival, the orphan, and the widow, and if you do not pour out innocent blood in this place, and if you do not walk after strange gods, which is to your own harm,

Jeremiah 7:7

then I will live with you in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from the beginning and even forever.

Ezekiel 22:7

They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.

Zechariah 7:10

And do not find fault with the widow, and the orphan, and the newcomer, and the poor. And let not a man consider evil in his heart towards his brother.

Malachi 3:5

And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 23:14

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you consume the houses of widows, praying long prayers. Because of this, you shall receive the greater judgment.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He accomplishes judgment for the orphan and the widow. He loves the sojourner, and he gives him food as well as clothing.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Take care, lest perhaps an impious thought might creep within you, and you might say in your heart: 'The seventh year of remission approaches.' And so you might turn your eyes away from your poor brother, unwilling to lend to him what he has asked. If so, then he may cry out against you to the Lord, and it will be a sin for you.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You shall not pervert the judgment of the new arrival or the orphan, nor shall you take away the widow's garment as collateral.

Deuteronomy 24:18

Remember that you served in Egypt, and that the Lord your God rescued you from there. Therefore, I am instructing you to act in this way.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed be he who subverts the judgment of the new arrival, the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say: Amen.

James 1:27

This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.