Jeremiah 22:3 Cross References
Jeremiah 22:3
3: This is what the LORD says: Be fair-minded and just. Do what is right! Help those who have been robbed; rescue them from their oppressors. Quit your evil deeds! Do not mistreat foreigners, orphans, and widows. Stop murdering the innocent!
Jeremiah 22:17
- "But you! You are full of selfish greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly."
Jeremiah 21:12
- This is what the LORD says to the dynasty of David: Give justice to the people you judge! Help those who have been robbed; rescue them from their oppressors. Do what is right, or my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire because of all your sins.
Micah 6:8
- No, O people, the LORD has already told you what is good, and this is what he requires: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
James 1:27
- Pure and lasting religion in the sight of God our Father means that we must care for orphans and widows in their troubles, and refuse to let the world corrupt us.
Ezekiel 22:7
- Fathers and mothers are contemptuously ignored. Resident foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed.
Zechariah 7:9
- "This is what the LORD Almighty says: Judge fairly and honestly, and show mercy and kindness to one another.
- Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and poor people. And do not make evil plans to harm each other.
- "Your ancestors would not listen to this message. They turned stubbornly away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing.
Malachi 3:5
- At that time I will put you on trial. I will be a ready witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.
Isaiah 1:15
- From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.
- Wash yourselves and be clean! Let me no longer see your evil deeds. Give up your wicked ways.
- Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the orphan. Fight for the rights of widows.
- "Come now, let us argue this out," says the LORD. "No matter how deep the stain of your sins, I can remove it. I can make you as clean as freshly fallen snow. Even if you are stained as red as crimson, I can make you as white as wool.
- If you will only obey me and let me help you, then you will have plenty to eat.
Jeremiah 5:28
- They are well fed and well groomed, and there is no limit to their wicked deeds. They refuse justice to orphans and deny the rights of the poor.
Proverbs 23:10
- Don't steal the land of defenseless orphans by moving the ancient boundary markers,
Deuteronomy 24:7
- "If anyone kidnaps a fellow Israelite and treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must cleanse the evil from among you.
Jeremiah 9:24
- Let them boast in this alone: that they truly know me and understand that I am the LORD who is just and righteous, whose love is unfailing, and that I delight in these things. I, the LORD, have spoken!
Isaiah 1:23
- Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them take bribes and refuse to defend the orphans and the widows.
2 Kings 24:4
- He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not forgive this.
Psalms 72:2
- Help him judge your people in the right way; let the poor always be treated fairly.
- May the mountains yield prosperity for all, and may the hills be fruitful, because the king does what is right.
- Help him to defend the poor, to rescue the children of the needy, and to crush their oppressors.
Joel 3:19
- Egypt will become a wasteland and Edom a wilderness, because they attacked Judah and killed her innocent people.
Jeremiah 7:5
- I will be merciful only if you stop your wicked thoughts and deeds and are fair to others;
- and if you stop exploiting foreigners, orphans, and widows; and if you stop your murdering; and if you stop worshiping idols as you now do to your own harm.
Psalms 68:5
- Father to the fatherless, defender of widows--this is God, whose dwelling is holy.
Deuteronomy 19:10
- That way you will prevent the death of innocent people in the land the LORD your God is giving you as a special possession, and you will not be held responsible for murder.
- "But suppose someone hates a neighbor and deliberately ambushes and murders that neighbor and then escapes to one of the cities of refuge.
- In that case, the leaders of the murderer's hometown must have the murderer brought back from the city of refuge and handed over to the dead person's avenger to be killed.
- Do not feel sorry for that murderer! Purge the guilt of murder from Israel so all may go well with you.
Deuteronomy 27:19
- `Cursed is anyone who is unjust to foreigners, orphans, and widows.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'
Exodus 23:6
- "Do not twist justice against people simply because they are poor.
- "Keep far away from falsely charging anyone with evil. Never put an innocent or honest person to death. I will not allow anyone guilty of this to go free.
- "Take no bribes, for a bribe makes you ignore something that you clearly see. A bribe always hurts the cause of the person who is in the right.
- "Do not oppress the foreigners living among you. You know what it is like to be a foreigner. Remember your own experience in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:18
- He gives justice to orphans and widows. He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and clothing.
Exodus 22:22
- "Do not exploit widows or orphans.
Job 29:7
- "Those were the days when I went to the city gate and took my place among the honored leaders.
- The young stepped aside when they saw me, and even the aged rose in respect at my coming.
- The princes stood in silence and put their hands over their mouths.
- The highest officials of the city stood quietly, holding their tongues in respect.
- "All who heard of me praised me. All who saw me spoke well of me.
Proverbs 6:17
- haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent,
2 Samuel 23:3
- The God of Israel spoke. The Rock of Israel said to me: `The person who rules righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
Job 22:9
- You must have sent widows away without helping them and crushed the strength of orphans.
Jeremiah 26:16
- Then the officials and the people said to the priests and prophets, "This man does not deserve the death sentence, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."
Deuteronomy 16:18
- "Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in all the towns the LORD your God is giving you. They will judge the people fairly throughout the land.
- You must never twist justice or show partiality. Never accept a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and corrupt the decisions of the godly.
- Let true justice prevail, so you may live and occupy the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Psalms 94:21
- They attack the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
Job 24:9
- "The wicked snatch a widow's child from her breast; they take the baby as a pledge for a loan.
Deuteronomy 25:1
- "Suppose two people take a dispute to court, and the judges declare that one is right and the other is wrong.
Leviticus 19:15
- "Always judge your neighbors fairly, neither favoring the poor nor showing deference to the rich.
Psalms 94:6
- They kill widows and foreigners and murder orphans.
Micah 3:11
- You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."