Cross references

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do right;

seek justice and correct the oppressor.

Defend the fatherless

and plead the case of the widow.”

Isaiah 1:17 BSB
  1. a Or and encourage the oppressed

Isaiah 1:17 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Micah 6:8 (31 votes) and Jeremiah 22:3 (27 votes). 71 other verses point back to it. It links with 28 other books, from Exodus 22 to 3 John 1.

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Which verses does Isaiah 1:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Micah 6:831 votes

    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 walk humbly with your God?

  2. 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.

  3. Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

  4. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.

  5. Isaiah 1:2323 votes

    Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

  6. “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

  7. Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him. He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.

  8. Daniel 4:2718 votes

    Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

  9. These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

  10. Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.

Which verses point to Isaiah 1:17?

The 10 strongest of 71.