Isa 1:23, Eze 22:7, Mal 3:5, Jam 1:27 | ESV | STEP | Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves . Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts . They do not bring justice to the fatherless , and the widow’s cause does not come to them.

Isaiah 1:23

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

Ezekiel 22:7

7 Father and mother ^care treated with contempt in you; the sojourner ^dsuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow ^eare wronged in you.

Malachi 3:5

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

James 1:27

27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: ⁱto visit ^jorphans and widows in their affliction, and ^kto keep oneself ^lunstained from the world.