The Lord Will Take Up Their Case

Proverbs 22:22-25 – Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court, for the Lord will take up their case and will exact life for life. Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.

Proverbs 23:10-11 – Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Defender is strong; he will take up their case against you.

1 Corinthians 15:33 – Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

• ·         Oppressing the widow and the fatherless is strongly denounced.
• ·         God is a “father to the fatherless, a defender of widows”.
• ·         “Bad company corrupts good character”.
• ·         The application of “bad company corrupts good character” was that those who were teaching that there was no resurrection were the “bad company” and that they were corrupting the “good character” of those who held to the correct doctrine.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV