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4 Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
Deuteronomy 15:7 (NIV)
7 If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.
Jeremiah 22:3 (NIV)
3 This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Proverbs 24:11-12 (NIV)
11 Rescue those being led away to death;
hold back those staggering toward slaughter.
12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?
Esther 4:14 (NIV)
14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
James 2:1 (NIV)
My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism.
All Scripture taken from Biblegateway.com
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