Jeremiah 22:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?

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  • Jer 9:24 : 24 But let him that glorieth, glorie in this, that he vnderstandeth, and knoweth me: for I am the Lorde, which shewe mercie, iudgement, and righteousnes in the earth: for in these things I delite, sayth the Lord.
  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed: iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widowe.
  • Ps 72:1-4 : 1 A Psalme of Salomon. Giue thy iudgements to the King, O God, and thy righteousnesse to the Kings sonne. 2 Then shal he iudge thy people in righteousnesse, and thy poore with equitie. 3 The mountaines & the hilles shall bring peace to the people by iustice. 4 He shall iudge the poore of the people: he shall saue the children of the needie, and shal subdue the oppressor.
  • Ps 72:12-13 : 12 For he shall deliuer the poore when he cryeth: the needie also, and him that hath no helper. 13 He shalbe mercifull to the poore and needie, and shall preserue the soules of the poore.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And thou, Salomon my sonne, know thou the God of thy father, and serue him with a perfit heart, and with a willing minde: For the Lorde searcheth all hearts, and vnderstandeth all the imaginations of thoughts: if thou seeke him, he will be found of thee, but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for euer.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They professe that they know God, but by works they deny him, and are abominable & disobedient, and vnto euery good worke reprobate.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And hereby we are sure that we knowe him, if we keepe his commandements. 4 Hee that saith, I knowe him, and keepeth not his commaundements, is a liar, and the trueth is not in him.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternall, that they knowe thee to be the onely very God, and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ.
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 Deliuer them that are drawen to death: wilt thou not preserue them that are led to be slaine? 12 If thou say, Beholde, we knew not of it: he that pondereth the heartes, doeth not hee vnderstand it? And hee that keepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Will not he also recompense euery man according to his workes?
  • 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 There is none holy as the Lord: yea, there is none besides thee, & there is no god like our God.
  • Job 29:12-17 : 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.
  • Ps 9:10 : 10 And they that know thy Name, will trust in thee: for thou, Lorde, hast not failed them that seeke thee.
  • Ps 82:3-4 : 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.
  • Ps 109:31 : 31 For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.
  • 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.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord.
  • Jer 9:16 : 16 I wil scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers haue knowen, and I will send a sworde after them, til I haue consumed them.
  • Jer 31:33-34 : 33 But this shall be the couenant that I will make with the house of Israel, After those dayes, saith the Lord, I will put my Lawe in their inward partes, and write it in their hearts, and wil be their God, and they shalbe my people. 34 And they shall teach no more euery man his neighbour and euery man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me from the least of them vnto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I wil forgiue their iniquitie, and will remember their sinnes no more.
  • John 8:19 : 19 Then saide they vnto him, Where is that Father of thine? Iesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor that Father of mine. If ye had knowen me, ye should haue knowen that Father of mine also.
  • John 8:54-55 : 54 Iesus answered, If I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing worth: it is my Father that honoureth me, whome ye say, that hee is your God. 55 Yet ye haue not knowen him: but I knowe him, and if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like vnto you: but I knowe him, and keepe his worde.
  • John 16:3 : 3 And these things will they doe vnto you, because they haue not knowen ye Father, nor me.
  • John 17:6 : 6 I haue declared thy Name vnto the men which thou gauest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gauest them me, and they haue kept thy worde.

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