Ex. XXII, 21. Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
22. Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Prov. XIV, 31. He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor.
Deut. XXIV, 17. Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge.
Prov. XXII, 16. Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Prov. XXII, 22. Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate.
Psalm XLI, 1. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
2. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
1 John III, 17. But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
James I, 27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.