Quotes about Advocacy
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
- Job 31:13
But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
- Job 33:32
They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
- Job 34:28
Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
- Psalm 35:23
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
- Psalm 82:3
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?
- Psalm 94:16
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
- Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
- Proverbs 31:9
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- 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
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.
- Isaiah 1:23
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.
- Jeremiah 5:28