Jeremiah 22:16

World English Bible (2000)

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

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  • Jer 9:24 : 24 but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.
  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."
  • Ps 72:1-4 : 1 God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son. 2 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. 3 The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness. 4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
  • Ps 72:12-13 : 12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper. 13 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. 4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
  • John 17:3 : 3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! 12 If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
  • 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.
  • Job 29:12-17 : 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him, 13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out. 17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
  • Ps 9:10 : 10 Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
  • Ps 82:3-4 : 3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. 4 Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."
  • Ps 109:31 : 31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. A Psalm by David.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 9:16 : 16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.
  • Jer 31:33-34 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
  • John 8:19 : 19 They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
  • John 8:54-55 : 54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. 55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.
  • John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  • John 17:6 : 6 I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

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