Deuteronomy 24:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

Thou shalt not peruert the right of the stranger, nor of the fatherlesse, nor take a widowes rayment to pledge.

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  • Deut 16:19 : 19 Wrest not thou ye Law, nor respect any person, neither take rewarde: for the reward blindeth ye eyes of the wise, & peruerteth ye worde of ye iust.
  • Exod 22:21-22 : 21 Moreouer, thou shalt not do iniurie to a stranger, neither oppresse him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 Ye shall not trouble any widowe, nor fatherlesse childe.
  • Exod 23:6 : 6 Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed be he that hindreth the right of the stranger, the fatherles, and the widow: And all the people shal say: So be it.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth giftes, and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doeth the widowes cause come before them.
  • Job 29:11-17 : 11 And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me. 12 For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce. 14 I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne. 15 I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame. 16 I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. 17 I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.
  • Exod 23:9 : 9 Thou shalt not oppresse a stranger: for ye knowe the heart of a stranger, seeing yee were strangers in the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 1:17 : 17 Ye shal haue no respect of person in iudgement, but shall heare the small aswell as the great: yee shall not feare the face of man: for the iudgemet is Gods: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring vnto me, and I will heare it.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 To make good for the euil of their hands, the prince asked, and the iudge iudgeth for a reward: therefore the great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soule: so they wrapt it vp.
  • Exod 23:2 : 2 Thou shalt not followe a multitude to do euil, neither agree in a controuersie to decline after many and ouerthrowe the trueth.
  • Zech 7:10 : 10 And oppresse not the widowe, nor the fatherles, the stranger nor the poore, & let none of you imagine euil against his brother in your heart.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come neere to you to iudgement, and I will be a swift witnesse against the southsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelings wages, and vexe the widowe, and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the stranger, and feare not me, sayth the Lord of hostes.
  • Luke 3:14 : 14 The souldiers likewise demaunded of him, saying, And what shall we doe? And he saide vnto them, Doe violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages.
  • Jas 2:6 : 6 But ye haue despised the poore. Doe not the riche oppresse you by tyrannie, and doe not they drawe you before the iudgement seates?
  • Jer 22:3 : 3 Thus saith the Lorde, Execute ye iudgement and righteousnes, and deliuer the oppressed from the hande of the oppressor, and vexe not the stranger, the fatherlesse, nor the widowe: doe no violence, nor sheade innocent blood in this place.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In thee haue they despised father and mother: in the middes of thee haue they oppressed the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widowe.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land haue violently oppressed by spoyling and robbing, and haue vexed the poore and the needy: yea, they haue oppressed the stranger against right.
  • Amos 5:7-9 : 7 They turne iudgement to wormewood, and leaue off righteousnes in the earth. 8 He maketh Pleiades, and Orion, and he turneth the shadowe of death into the morning, and he maketh the day darke as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth: the Lord is his Name. 9 He strengtheneth the destroyer against the mightie: and the destroyer shal come against the fortresse. 10 They haue hated him, that rebuked in the gate: and they abhorred him that speaketh vprightly. 11 Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shal not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shal not drinke wine of them. 12 For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewards, & they oppresse the poore in ye gate.
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Wo vnto them, that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it because their hande hath power. 2 And they couet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.
  • Deut 10:17-18 : 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lordes, a great God, mightie and terrible, which accepteth no persons nor taketh reward: 18 Who doeth right vnto the fatherlesse and widowe, & loueth the stranger, giuing him foode and rayment.
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe: 27 For that is his couering only, and this is his garment for his skin: wherin shal he sleepe? therefore when he crieth vnto mee, I will heare him: for I am mercifull.
  • Deut 24:6 : 6 No man shal take the nether nor the vpper milstone to pledge: for this gage is his liuing.
  • Deut 24:13 : 13 But shalt restore him the pledge when the sunne goeth downe, that he may sleepe in his raiment, and blesse thee: and it shalbe righteousnesse vnto thee before the Lord thy God.
  • Ps 82:1-5 : 1 A Psalme committed to Asaph. God standeth in the assemblie of gods: hee iudgeth among gods. 2 How long wil ye iudge vniustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3 Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie. 4 Deliuer the poore and needie: saue them from the hand of the wicked. 5 They knowe not and vnderstand nothing: they walke in darkenes, albeit all the foundations of the earth be mooued.
  • Ps 94:3-6 : 3 Lord how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 4 They prate and speake fiercely: all the workers of iniquitie vaunt themselues. 5 They smite downe thy people, O Lorde, and trouble thine heritage. 6 They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murther the fatherlesse.
  • Ps 94:20-21 : 20 Hath the throne of iniquitie fellowship with thee, which forgeth wrong for a Lawe? 21 They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.
  • Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement. 23 For the Lord will defende their cause, and spoyle the soule of those that spoyle them.
  • Prov 31:5 : 5 Lest he drinke and forget the decree, and change the iudgement of all the children of affliction.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 (5:7) If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.
  • Isa 3:15 : 15 What haue ye to do, that ye beate my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the poore, saith the Lord, euen tho Lord of hostes?
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 Hee that walketh in iustice, and speaketh righteous things, refusing gaine of oppression, shaking his handes from taking of gifts, stopping his eares from hearing of blood, and shutting his eyes from seeing euill.
  • 1 Sam 12:3-4 : 3 Beholde, here I am: beare recorde of me before the Lord & before his Anointed. Whose oxe haue I taken? or whose asse haue I taken? or whome haue I done wrong to? or whome haue I hurt? or of whose hande haue I receiued any bribe, to blinde mine eyes therewith, and I will restore it you? 4 Then they sayde, Thou hast done vs no wrong, nor hast hurt vs, neither hast thou taken ought of any mans hand.
  • Job 22:8-9 : 8 But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it. 9 Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Exod 23:6
    82%

    6Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute.

  • Exod 22:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21Moreouer, thou shalt not do iniurie to a stranger, neither oppresse him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

    22Ye shall not trouble any widowe, nor fatherlesse childe.

  • Deut 27:19
    81%

    19Cursed be he that hindreth the right of the stranger, the fatherles, and the widow: And all the people shal say: So be it.

  • Deut 24:18-21
    4 verses
    81%

    18But remember that thou wast a seruant in Egypt, and howe the Lorde thy God deliuered thee thence. Therefore I commaund thee to doe this thing.

    19When thou cuttest downe thine haruest in thy fielde, and hast forgotten a sheafe in the fielde, thou shalt not goe againe to fet it, but it shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherles, & for the widowe: that the Lorde thy God may blesse thee in all the workes of thine hands.

    20When thou beatest thine oliue tree, thou shalt not goe ouer the boughes againe, but it shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherlesse, and for the widowe.

    21When thou gatherest thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather the grapes cleane after thee, but they shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherlesse, and for the widowe.

  • Deut 16:19-20
    2 verses
    80%

    19Wrest not thou ye Law, nor respect any person, neither take rewarde: for the reward blindeth ye eyes of the wise, & peruerteth ye worde of ye iust.

    20That which is iust and right shalt thou follow, that thou maiest liue, & possesse the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

  • Deut 10:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18Who doeth right vnto the fatherlesse and widowe, & loueth the stranger, giuing him foode and rayment.

    19Loue ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

  • Deut 24:10-16
    7 verses
    79%

    10Whe thou shalt aske again of thy neighbour any thing lent, thou shalt not goe into his house to fet his pledge.

    11But thou shalt stand without, and the man that borowed it of thee, shall bring the pledge out of the doores vnto thee.

    12Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge,

    13But shalt restore him the pledge when the sunne goeth downe, that he may sleepe in his raiment, and blesse thee: and it shalbe righteousnesse vnto thee before the Lord thy God.

    14Thou shalt not oppresse an hyred seruant that is needie and poore, neyther of thy brethren, nor of the stranger that is in thy land within thy gates.

    15Thou shalt giue him his hire for his day, neither shall the sunne goe downe vpon it: for he is poore, and therewith susteineth his life: lest he crye against thee vnto the Lorde, and it be sinne vnto thee.

    16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children put to death for the fathers, but euery man shalbe put to death for his owne sinne.

  • Jer 7:6
    79%

    6And oppresse not the stranger, the fatherlesse and the widow and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walke after other gods to your destruction,

  • Lev 19:15
    78%

    15Ye shall not doe vniustly in iudgement. Thou shalt not fauour the person of the poore, nor honour the person of the mightie, but thou shalt iudge thy neighbour iustly.

  • Jer 22:3
    78%

    3Thus saith the Lorde, Execute ye iudgement and righteousnes, and deliuer the oppressed from the hande of the oppressor, and vexe not the stranger, the fatherlesse, nor the widowe: doe no violence, nor sheade innocent blood in this place.

  • Job 24:3
    77%

    3They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

  • Zech 7:10
    77%

    10And oppresse not the widowe, nor the fatherles, the stranger nor the poore, & let none of you imagine euil against his brother in your heart.

  • Isa 10:2
    77%

    2To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.

  • Exod 22:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25If thou lende money to my people, that is, to the poore with thee, thou shalt not bee as an vsurer vnto him: yee shall not oppresse him with vsurie.

    26If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe:

  • Ezek 22:7
    77%

    7In thee haue they despised father and mother: in the middes of thee haue they oppressed the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widowe.

  • Deut 24:6
    76%

    6No man shal take the nether nor the vpper milstone to pledge: for this gage is his liuing.

  • Job 22:6
    76%

    6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

  • Exod 23:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2Thou shalt not followe a multitude to do euil, neither agree in a controuersie to decline after many and ouerthrowe the trueth.

    3Thou shalt not esteeme a poore man in his cause.

  • Prov 27:13
    75%

    13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.

  • Deut 14:29
    75%

    29Then ye Leuite shall come, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widowe, which are within thy gates, and shall eate, and be filled, that the Lord thy God may blesse thee in al the worke of thine hand which thou doest.

  • Exod 23:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the wordes of the righteous.

    9Thou shalt not oppresse a stranger: for ye knowe the heart of a stranger, seeing yee were strangers in the land of Egypt.

  • Ezek 18:16
    75%

    16Neither hath oppressed any, nor hath withholden the pledge, neither hath spoyled by violence, but hath giuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment,

  • Job 24:9
    75%

    9They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.

  • Prov 23:10
    75%

    10Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.

  • Ezek 18:7
    74%

    7Neither hath oppressed any, but hath restored the pledge to his dettour: he that hath spoyled none by violence, but hath giuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment,

  • Prov 20:16
    74%

    16Take his garment, that is suretie for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.

  • Job 22:9
    74%

    9Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.

  • Deut 19:14
    74%

    14Thou shalt not remooue thy neighbours marke, which they of olde time haue set in thine inheritance, that thou shalt inherite in the lande, which ye Lorde thy God giueth thee to possesse it.

  • Prov 22:22
    74%

    22Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement.

  • Lev 19:35
    73%

    35Ye shall not doe vniustly in iudgement, in line, in weight, or in measure.

  • Ps 146:9
    73%

    9The Lord keepeth the strangers: he relieueth the fatherlesse & widowe: but he ouerthroweth the way of the wicked.

  • Lev 19:10
    73%

    10Thou shalt not gather the grapes of thy vineyarde cleane, neyther gather euery grape of thy vineyarde, but thou shalt leaue them for the poore and for the straunger: I am the Lorde your God.

  • Ps 94:6
    73%

    6They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murther the fatherlesse.

  • Lev 19:33
    73%

    33And if a stranger soiourne with thee in your lande, ye shall not vexe him.

  • Deut 22:30
    73%

    30No man shal take his fathers wife, nor shall vncouer his fathers skirt.