Cross references
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9 has 25 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 1:17 (13 votes) and Leviticus 19:15 (9 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 20 other books, from Leviticus 19 to Revelation 19.
Which verses does Proverbs 31:9 point to?
The 20 strongest of 25, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Isaiah 1:1713 votes
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- Leviticus 19:159 votes
You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
- Amos 5:11–129 votes
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
- Deuteronomy 1:167 votes
At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
- Job 29:15–167 votes
I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
- Jeremiah 22:36 votes
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.
- Proverbs 16:124 votes
Wicked behavior is detestable for kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.
- Isaiah 1:234 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.
- Jeremiah 5:284 votes
They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
- Daniel 4:274 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.”
- Deuteronomy 16:18–203 votes
- Job 29:123 votes
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
- Psalm 72:1–23 votes
- Jeremiah 23:53 votes
- 2 Samuel 8:152 votes
- Proverbs 20:82 votes
- Isaiah 11:42 votes
- Jeremiah 22:15–162 votes
- Zechariah 7:92 votes
- Revelation 19:112 votes
Which verses point to Proverbs 31:9?
The 10 strongest of 20.