Isa 1:17, 23, 10:2, Eze 22:7, Mal 3:5, Luk 18:3-5 | ESV | STEP | learn to do good ; seek justice , correct oppression ; bring justice to the fatherless , plead the widow’s cause.

Isaiah 1:17

17 learn to do good;
^aseek justice,
correct oppression;
^bbring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.

Isaiah 1:23

23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone ^cloves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
^dThey do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow’s cause does not come to them.

Isaiah 10:2

2 to turn aside the needy from justice
and ^eto rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be their spoil,
and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Ezekiel 22:7

7 Father and mother ^fare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner ^gsuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow ^hare wronged in you.

Malachi 3:5

5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be ⁱa swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those ^jwho oppress the hired worker in his wages, ^kthe widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Luke 18:3-5

3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ^l‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”