Isaiah 1:17

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Learn to do good, seek justice, straighten the oppressor, judge the orphan, strive for the widow.

Cross References

Psalm 34:14

turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Exodus 22:21

You shall not be violent toward a sojourner. You shall not oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 15:25

Jehovah will pull down the house of the proud ones, but He will set up the widow’s border.

Proverbs 21:3

For Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice is to be chosen more than sacrifice.

Proverbs 31:9

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the afflicted ones and the needy ones.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebelling and are companions of thieves. Everyone loves a present, and is pursuing bribes. They do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the judgment of the poor ones, the afflicted one from judgment, and to take away justice of the afflicted one of My people; that widows may be their prey; that they may plunder orphans.

Isaiah 56:1

So says Jehovah: Keep judgment and do righteousness, for My salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.

Isaiah 58:6

this is not the fast I have chosen: to open bands of wickedness, to undo thongs of the yoke, and to send out free the ones being oppressed, and that you pull off every yoke?

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David, so says Jehovah: Judge justice for the morning, and deliver the one plundered out of the hand of the one oppressing, that My fury not go out like fire and burn so that none can put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 22:3

So says Jehovah, Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one plundered from the hand of the oppressing one. And do not oppress the alien, the widow, or the orphan, and do not do violence and not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending, saying, Each man now turn back from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you shall live in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers. But you have not stretched out your ear, and not listened to Me.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away all your transgressions from you by which you have transgressed in them, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have despised father and mother. In your midst they have dealt with the alien by oppression. In you they oppressed the widow and the orphan.

Ezekiel 45:9

So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel! Turn away violence and oppression, and do judgment and righteousness. Lift away your acts of violence from My people, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.

Daniel 4:27

So, O king, let my counsel be pleasing to you: Even break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by pitying the humble one, whether there will be duration to your prosperity.

Micah 6:8

O man, He has declared to you what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to be humble to walk with your God?

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek Jehovah, all the humble ones of the earth who have done His judgment; seek righteousness; seek meekness. It may be you shall be hidden in the day of the anger of Jehovah.

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you shall do. Let each man speak truth with his neighbor. Judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates,

Deuteronomy 14:29

And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come and shall eat and be satisfied; so that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself without blemish from the world.