Jeremiah 22:16

Josiah defended the poor and needy, and God says this is what it means to know Him. Caring for the vulnerable is the fruit of truly knowing God.

Cross-references · 22

• Jer 9:24But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
• 1 Jn 2:3–4And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
• Isa 1:17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
• Titus 1:16They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
• John 17:3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
• Ps 72:1–4Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.
• Ps 72:12–13For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
• Ps 109:31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
• Jer 9:16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
• Prov 24:11–12If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
• Ps 9:10And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
• 1 Chr 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
• Jer 5:28They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
• Jer 9:3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
• John 8:54–55Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
• John 17:6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
• John 16:3And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
• Ps 82:3–4Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
• Jer 31:33–34But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• 1 Sam 2:2There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
• John 8:19Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
• Job 29:12–17Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

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