Proverbs 31:9

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Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
  • Lev 19:15 : 15 Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.
  • Deut 1:16 : 16 And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.
  • Job 29:15-16 : 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking. 16 I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
  • Jer 22:15-16 : 15 Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him? 16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
  • Jer 23:5 : 5 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.
  • Dan 4:27 : 27 For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.
  • Amos 5:11-12 : 11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine. 12 For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
  • Zech 7:9 : 9 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.
  • John 7:24 : 24 Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.
  • Heb 1:9 : 9 You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.
  • Rev 19:11 : 11 And the heaven was open; and I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it was named Certain and True; and he is judging and making war in righteousness.
  • Ps 58:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David.> Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men? 2 The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
  • Ps 72:1-2 : 1 <Of Solomon.> Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son. 2 May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.
  • Prov 16:12 : 12 Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.
  • Prov 20:8 : 8 A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.
  • Deut 16:18-20 : 18 You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness. 19 You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false. 20 Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • 2 Sam 8:15 : 15 And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
  • Isa 11:4 : 4 But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
  • Isa 32:1-2 : 1 See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions. 2 And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
  • Jer 22:3 : 3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 31:8
    87%

    8 Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3 Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.

    4 Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.

  • Exod 23:6
    78%

    6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

  • Isa 10:2
    77%

    2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • Jer 22:16
    77%

    16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

  • Prov 29:7
    76%

    7 The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.

  • Ps 72:2
    76%

    2 May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.

  • Isa 1:17
    76%

    17 Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

  • Prov 22:22-23
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    76%

    22 Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

    23 For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

  • Ps 140:12
    75%

    12 I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.

  • Prov 29:14
    75%

    14 The king who is a true judge in the cause of the poor, will be safe for ever on the seat of his power.

  • Ps 37:30
    74%

    30 The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.

  • Job 5:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15 But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

    16 So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

  • Job 29:12
    74%

    12 For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

  • Ps 41:1
    74%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

  • Job 36:15
    74%

    15 He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.

  • Prov 21:13
    74%

    13 He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

  • Ps 72:4
    74%

    4 May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

  • Ps 10:18
    73%

    18 To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

  • Prov 14:31
    73%

    31 He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

  • Deut 25:1
    73%

    1 If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.

  • Lev 19:15
    73%

    15 Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

  • Jer 22:3
    73%

    3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

  • Prov 31:26
    73%

    26 Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.

  • Job 29:16
    73%

    16 I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

  • Ps 109:31
    73%

    31 For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.

  • Exod 23:3
    73%

    3 But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

  • Deut 15:11
    72%

    11 For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.

  • Prov 8:6
    72%

    6 Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright.

  • Isa 3:13
    72%

    13 The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.

  • Ps 12:5
    72%

    5 Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

  • Job 22:9
    72%

    9 You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

  • Prov 10:31
    72%

    31 The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.

  • Prov 31:20
    72%

    20 Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.

  • Deut 27:19
    72%

    19 Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Amos 8:4
    72%

    4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

  • Job 31:16
    72%

    16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

  • Prov 28:3
    71%

    3 A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

  • Ps 72:12
    71%

    12 For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

  • Ps 9:8
    71%

    8 And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.

  • Prov 23:11
    71%

    11 For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.

  • Ps 7:8
    71%

    8 The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

  • Job 30:25
    71%

    25 Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

  • Eccl 5:8
    71%

    8 It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

  • Isa 11:4
    71%

    4 But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.

  • Ps 146:7
    71%

    7 Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;