Proverbs 22:23 KJV
For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Proverbs 22:23, King James Version
In context
22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
23 For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Cross-references
- Psalms 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
- Psalms 140:12 I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
- Jeremiah 51:36 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
- Proverbs 23:11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
- 1 Samuel 25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.