Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do good; strive for justice, condemn those who oppress others; support the rights of orphans, take up cases to defend widows.
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In The King James Version
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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Psalms 82:3Defend the poor and orphans; support the rights of those who are oppressed and suffering.
Proverbs 21:3Doing what's right and fair pleases the Lord more than sacrifices.
Isaiah 1:23Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and want to get kickbacks. They don't defend the rights of orphans, and refuse to take cases to help widows.
Jeremiah 22:3This is what the Lord says: Do what is fair and right. Protect those who are being unjustly treated by corrupt people. Don't do anything wrong to foreigners, orphans, or the widows. Don't use violence against them. Don't kill innocent people.
Ezekiel 22:7You despise your parents. You exploit the foreigners who live with you, and you mistreat orphans and widows.
Daniel 4:27So, Your Majesty, please take my advice. Stop sinning and do what's right. End your iniquities and be merciful to the oppressed. Maybe then things will continue to go well for you.”
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:17-21
A Call to Repentance; Repentance and Reformation Urged. ( b. c. 738.) 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the… Read the whole commentary →