Isaiah 1:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 34:14

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Exodus 22:21

“You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow’s boundaries.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Proverbs 31:9

Speak out; judge righteously; defend the rights of the poor and needy.

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!

Isaiah 56:1

Thus says the Lord: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come and my deliverance be revealed.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David! Thus says the Lord: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed, or else my wrath will go forth like fire and burn, with no one to quench it, because of their evil doings.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, “Turn now every one of you from your evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall live in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors.” But you did not incline your ear or obey me.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?

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.

Ezekiel 45:9

“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, may my counsel be acceptable to you: atone for your sins with righteousness and your iniquities with mercy to the oppressed, so that your prosperity may be prolonged.”

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land who do his commands; seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the Lord’s wrath.

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you shall do: speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,

Deuteronomy 14:29

the Levites, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you, as well as the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work that you undertake.

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.