Proverbs 31:9

Other passages that echo Proverbs 31:9 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

1. Leviticus 19:15You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
2. Deuteronomy 1:16At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
3. Deuteronomy 16:18You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
4. 2 Samuel 8:15Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:
5. Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
6. Job 29:15I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
7. Psalms 58:1Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
8. Psalms 72:1Endow the king with Your justice, O God, and the son of the king with Your righteousness.
9. Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
10. Proverbs 16:12Wicked behavior is detestable to kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.
11. Proverbs 20:8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
12. Isaiah 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
13. Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
14. Isaiah 11:4but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
15. Isaiah 32:1Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice.
16. Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
17. Jeremiah 21:12O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
18. Jeremiah 22:3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
19. Jeremiah 22:15Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
20. Jeremiah 23:5Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
21. Daniel 4:27Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
22. Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
23. Zechariah 7:9“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
24. Zechariah 9:9Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion!Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem!See, your King comes to you,righteous and victorious,humble and riding on a donkey,on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

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