Jeremiah 22:3

This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Cross References (35)

  • Jeremiah 21:12 (8)

    O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from t

  • Micah 6:8 (7)

    He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to wa

  • Jeremiah 22:17 (7)

    “But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing ex

  • James 1:27 (6)

    Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to

  • Ezekiel 22:7 (5)

    Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the

  • Isaiah 1:15–20 (4)

    When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will no

  • Zechariah 7:9–11 (4)

    “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.

  • Malachi 3:5 (4)

    “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers

  • Joel 3:19 (3)

    Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose l

  • Proverbs 23:10 (3)

    Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

  • Isaiah 1:23 (3)

    Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fathe

  • Jeremiah 5:28 (3)

    They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fat

  • Jeremiah 7:5–6 (3)

    For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

  • Psalms 72:2–4 (3)

    May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

  • 2 Kings 24:4 (3)

    and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling

  • Psalms 68:5 (3)

    A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.

  • Deuteronomy 19:10–13 (3)

    Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you wil

  • Deuteronomy 24:7 (3)

    If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnappe

  • Jeremiah 9:24 (3)

    But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotio

  • Deuteronomy 10:18 (2)

    He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

  • Job 22:9 (2)

    You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

  • Job 29:7–17 (2)

    When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

  • Leviticus 19:15 (2)

    You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your

  • Proverbs 6:17 (2)

    haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

  • Psalms 94:6 (2)

    They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

  • Deuteronomy 25:1 (2)

    If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the g

  • Exodus 23:6–9 (2)

    You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.

  • Deuteronomy 16:18–20 (2)

    You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to

  • Deuteronomy 27:19 (2)

    ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen

  • 2 Samuel 23:3 (2)

    The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of

  • Job 24:9 (2)

    The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

  • Jeremiah 26:16 (2)

    Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken

  • Psalms 94:21 (2)

    They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

  • Micah 3:11 (1)

    Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they l

  • Exodus 22:22 (1)

    You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.