Bible Verses about “standing up for others”
The Bible contains 8 verses about standing up for others across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”
“For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him [that is] alone when he falleth; for [he hath] not another to help him up.”
“Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”
“Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.”
“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.”
“¶ Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”
“¶ A righteous man falling down before the wicked [is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.”