100 Bible Verses About Advocacy

That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

The Lord taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.

And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

And they said, The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:

One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.

And Moses brought their cause before the Lord.

Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:

When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.

Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.

And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.

And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?

Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.

Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: