Proverbs 31:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

Open thy mouth: iudge righteously, and iudge the afflicted, and the poore.

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  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed: iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widowe.
  • Lev 19:15 : 15 Ye 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.
  • Deut 1:16 : 16 And I charged your iudges that same time, saying, Heare the controuersies betweene your brethren, and iudge righteously betwene euery man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
  • Job 29:15-16 : 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.
  • Jer 22:15-16 : 15 Shalt thou reigne, because thou closest thy selfe in cedar? Did not thy father eate and drinke and prosper, when he executed iudgement and iustice? 16 When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?
  • Jer 23:5 : 5 Behold, The dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will raise vnto Dauid a righteous branche, and a King shal reigne, and prosper, and shall execute iudgement, and iustice in the earth.
  • Dan 4:27 : 27 (4:24) Wherefore, O King, let my counsell be acceptable vnto thee, and breake off thy sinnes by righteousnes, and thine iniquities by mercy toward the poore: lo, let there be an healing of thine errour.
  • Amos 5:11-12 : 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.
  • Zech 7:9 : 9 Thus speaketh the Lorde of hostes, saying, Execute true iudgement, and shewe mercy and compassion, euery man to his brother,
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Reioyce greatly, O daughter Zion: shoute for ioy, O daughter Ierusalem: beholde, thy King commeth vnto thee: he is iust and saued himselfe, poore and riding vpon an asse, and vpon a colt the foale of an asse.
  • John 7:24 : 24 Iudge not according to the appearance, but iudge righteous iudgement.
  • Heb 1:9 : 9 Thou hast loued righteousnes & hated iniquitie. Wherefore God, eue thy God, hath anointed thee with the oyle of gladnes aboue thy felowes.
  • Rev 19:11 : 11 And I sawe heauen open, and behold, a white horse, and he that sate vpon him, was called, Faithfull and true, and he iudgeth & fighteth righteously.
  • Ps 58:1-2 : 1 To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of Dauid on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly? 2 Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
  • Ps 72:1-2 : 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.
  • Prov 16:12 : 12 It is an abomination to Kings to commit wickednes: for the throne is stablished by iustice.
  • Prov 20:8 : 8 A King that sitteth in the throne of iudgement, chaseth away all euill with his eyes.
  • Deut 16:18-20 : 18 Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy cities, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall iudge the people with righteous iudgement. 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. 20 That which is iust and right shalt thou follow, that thou maiest liue, & possesse the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee.
  • 2 Sam 8:15 : 15 Thus Dauid reigned ouer all Israel, & executed iudgement & iustice vnto all his people.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.
  • 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.
  • Isa 11:4 : 4 But with righteousnesse shall he iudge the poore, and with equitie shall he reprooue for the meeke of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lippes shall he slay the wicked.
  • Isa 32:1-2 : 1 Beholde, a King shall reigne in iustice, and the princes shall rule in iudgement. 2 And that man shall bee as an hiding place from the winde, and as a refuge for the tempest: as riuers of water in a drie place, and as the shadowe of a great rocke in a weary land.
  • 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 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 31:8
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    8Open thy mouth for the domme in the cause of all the children of destruction.

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    82%

    3Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.

    4Deliuer the poore and needie: saue them from the hand of the wicked.

  • Exod 23:6
    78%

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

  • Isa 10:2
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    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.

  • Jer 22:16
    77%

    16When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?

  • Prov 29:7
    76%

    7The righteous knoweth the cause of the poore: but the wicked regardeth not knowledge.

  • Ps 72:2
    76%

    2Then shal he iudge thy people in righteousnesse, and thy poore with equitie.

  • Isa 1:17
    76%

    17Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed: iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widowe.

  • Prov 22:22-23
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    76%

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

    23For the Lord will defende their cause, and spoyle the soule of those that spoyle them.

  • Ps 140:12
    75%

    12I know that the Lord will auenge the afflicted, and iudge the poore.

  • Prov 29:14
    75%

    14A King that iudgeth the poore in trueth, his throne shalbe established for euer.

  • Ps 37:30
    74%

    30The mouth of the righteous will speake of wisedome, and his tongue will talke of iudgement.

  • Job 5:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,

    16So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.

  • Job 29:12
    74%

    12For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.

  • Ps 41:1
    74%

    1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Blessed is he that iudgeth wisely of the poore: the Lord shal deliuer him in ye time of trouble.

  • Job 36:15
    74%

    15He deliuereth the poore in his affliction, & openeth their eare in trouble.

  • Prov 21:13
    74%

    13He that stoppeth his eare at the crying of the poore, he shall also cry and not be heard.

  • Ps 72:4
    74%

    4He shall iudge the poore of the people: he shall saue the children of the needie, and shal subdue the oppressor.

  • Ps 10:18
    73%

    18To iudge the fatherlesse and poore, that earthly man cause to feare no more.

  • Prov 14:31
    73%

    31He that oppresseth the poore, reprooueth him that made him: but hee honoureth him, that hath mercie on the poore.

  • Deut 25:1
    73%

    1When there shall be strife betweene men, and they shall come vnto iudgement, and sentence shall be giuen vpon them, and the righteous shall be iustified, and the wicked condemned,

  • Lev 19:15
    73%

    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
    73%

    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.

  • Prov 31:26
    73%

    26She openeth her mouth with wisdome, and the lawe of grace is in her tongue.

  • Job 29:16
    73%

    16I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

  • Ps 109:31
    73%

    31For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.

  • Exod 23:3
    73%

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

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28They 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.

  • Deut 15:11
    72%

    11Because there shall be euer some poore in the land, therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand vnto thy brother, to thy needie, and to thy poore in thy land.

  • Prov 8:6
    72%

    6Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.

  • Isa 3:13
    72%

    13The Lorde standeth vp to pleade, yea, hee standeth to iudge the people.

  • Ps 12:5
    72%

    5Now for the oppression of the needy, and for the sighes of the poore, I will vp, sayeth the Lord, and will set at libertie him, whom the wicked hath snared.

  • Job 22:9
    72%

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

  • Prov 10:31
    72%

    31The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

  • Prov 31:20
    72%

    20She stretcheth out her hand to the poore, and putteth foorth her hands to the needie.

  • Deut 27:19
    72%

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

  • Amos 8:4
    72%

    4Heare this, O yee that swallowe vp the poore, that ye may make the needie of the lande to fayle,

  • Job 31:16
    72%

    16If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,

  • Prov 28:3
    71%

    3A poore man, if he oppresse the poore, is like a raging raine, that leaueth no foode.

  • Ps 72:12
    71%

    12For he shall deliuer the poore when he cryeth: the needie also, and him that hath no helper.

  • Ps 9:8
    71%

    8For he shall iudge the worlde in righteousnes, and shall iudge the people with equitie.

  • Prov 23:11
    71%

    11For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.

  • Ps 7:8
    71%

    8The Lorde shall iudge the people: Iudge thou me, O Lorde, according to my righteousnesse, and according to mine innocencie, that is in mee.

  • Job 30:25
    71%

    25Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?

  • Eccl 5:8
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    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 11:4
    71%

    4But with righteousnesse shall he iudge the poore, and with equitie shall he reprooue for the meeke of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lippes shall he slay the wicked.

  • Ps 146:7
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    7Which executeth iustice for the oppressed: which giueth bread to the hungry: the Lord loseth the prisoners.