Jeremiah 22:3

New Century Version

This is what the Lord says: Do what is fair and right. Save the one who has been robbed from the power of his attacker. Don’t mistreat or hurt the foreigners, orphans, or widows. Don’t kill innocent people here.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:3

The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me: ‘Whoever rules fairly over people, who rules with respect for God,

2 Kings 24:4

He had killed many innocent people and had filled Jerusalem with their blood. And the Lord would not forgive these sins.

Job 22:9

But you sent widows away empty-handed, and you mistreated orphans.

Job 24:9

The fatherless child is grabbed from its mother’s breast; they take a poor mother’s baby to pay for what she owes.

Psalm 68:5

God is in his holy Temple. He is a father to orphans, and he defends the widows.

Psalm 82:4

Save the weak and helpless; free them from the power of the wicked.

Psalm 94:21

They join forces against people who do right and sentence to death the innocent.

Psalm 94:6

They kill widows and foreigners and murder orphans.

Exodus 22:21

“Do not cheat or hurt a foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:22

“Do not cheat a widow or an orphan.

Proverbs 23:10

Don’t move an old stone that marks a border, and don’t take fields that belong to orphans.

Proverbs 6:17

a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that kill innocent people,

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels and friends of thieves. They all accept money for doing wrong, and they are paid to cheat people. They don’t seek justice for the orphans or listen to the widows’ needs.

Isaiah 58:6

“I will tell you the kind of fast I want: Free the people you have put in prison unfairly and undo their chains. Free those to whom you are unfair and stop their hard labor.

Isaiah 58:7

Share your food with the hungry and bring poor, homeless people into your own homes. When you see someone who has no clothes, give him yours, and don’t refuse to help your own relatives.

Jeremiah 19:4

The people of Judah have quit following me. They have made this a place for foreign gods. They have burned sacrifices to other gods that neither they, nor their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah had ever known before. They filled this place with the blood of innocent people.

Jeremiah 21:12

Family of David, this is what the Lord says: You must judge people fairly every morning. Save the person who has been robbed from the power of his attacker. If you don’t, I will become very angry. My anger will be like a fire that no one can put out, because you have done evil things.

Jeremiah 22:17

“But you only look for and think about what you can get dishonestly. You are even willing to kill innocent people to get it. You feel free to hurt people and to steal from them.”

Jeremiah 26:16

Then the officers and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “Jeremiah must not be killed. What he told us comes from the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 5:28

They have grown big and fat. There is no end to the evil things they do. They won’t plead the case of the orphan or help the poor be judged fairly.

Jeremiah 7:23

I also gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Do all that I command so that good things will happen to you.

Jeremiah 9:24

But if people want to brag, let them brag that they understand and know me. Let them brag that I am the Lord, and that I am kind and fair, and that I do things that are right on earth. This kind of bragging pleases me,” says the Lord.

Lamentations 3:36

the Lord sees if someone is cheated in his case in court.

Ezekiel 18:12

He mistreats the poor and needy. He steals and refuses to return what was promised for a loan. He looks to idols for help. He does things which I hate.

Ezekiel 18:7

He does not mistreat anyone but returns what was given as a promise for a loan. He does not rob other people. He gives bread to the hungry and clothes to those who have none.

Ezekiel 22:7

The people in you hate their fathers and mothers. They mistreat the foreigners in you and wrong the orphans and widows in you.

Ezekiel 45:9

“ ‘This is what the Lord God says: You have gone far enough, you rulers of Israel! Stop being cruel and hurting people, and do what is right and fair. Stop forcing my people out of their homes, says the Lord God.

Joel 3:19

But Egypt will become empty, and Edom an empty desert, because they were cruel to the people of Judah. They killed innocent people in that land.

Leviticus 19:15

“ ‘Be fair in your judging. You must not show special favor to poor people or great people, but be fair when you judge your neighbor.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good; be fair in the courts. Maybe the Lord God All-Powerful will be kind to the people of Joseph who are left alive.

Amos 5:24

But let justice flow like a river, and let goodness flow like a never-ending stream.

Micah 3:11

Its judges take money to decide who wins in court. Its priests only teach for pay, and its prophets only look into the future when they get paid. But they lean on the Lord and say, “The Lord is here with us, so nothing bad will happen to us.”

Micah 6:8

The Lord has told you, human, what is good; he has told you what he wants from you: to do what is right to other people, love being kind to others, and live humbly, obeying your God.

Malachi 3:5

The Lord All-Powerful says, “Then I will come to you and judge you. I will be quick to testify against those who take part in evil magic, adultery, and lying under oath, those who cheat workers of their pay and who cheat widows and orphans, those who are unfair to foreigners, and those who do not respect me.

Matthew 23:23

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You give to God one-tenth of everything you earn—even your mint, dill, and cumin. But you don’t obey the really important teachings of the law—justice, mercy, and being loyal. These are the things you should do, as well as those other things.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He helps orphans and widows, and he loves foreigners and gives them food and clothes.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Do not be unfair to a foreigner or an orphan. Don’t take a widow’s coat to make sure she pays you back.

Deuteronomy 24:7

If someone kidnaps a fellow Israelite, either to make him a slave or sell him, the kidnapper must be killed. You must get rid of the evil among you.

Deuteronomy 25:1

If two people have an argument and go to court, the judges will decide the case. They will declare one person right and the other guilty.

Deuteronomy 27:19

“Anyone will be cursed who is unfair to foreigners, orphans, or widows.” Then all the people will say, “Amen!”

James 1:27

Religion that God accepts as pure and without fault is this: caring for orphans or widows who need help, and keeping yourself free from the world’s evil influence.