Bible Verses About Standing Up for Others
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for standing up for others, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 936 votes, led by Proverbs 31:8-9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Standing Up for Others
Proverbs 31:8-9295 votes
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Isaiah 1:17160 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Psalms 82:395 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Ecclesiastes 4:1073 votes
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.
Proverbs 25:2649 votes
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
James 1:2722 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 16:1321 votes
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Micah 6:818 votes
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
John 3:16-2118 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Matthew 5:1116 votes
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Galatians 5:116 votes
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Ephesians 6:1316 votes
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Philippians 4:1315 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
2 Timothy 1:714 votes
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Luke 1:3713 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
1 John 4:112 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Ecclesiastes 4:1-1611 votes
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Luke 17:311 votes
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
1 John 4:811 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Matthew 12:3610 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Ephesians 6:1110 votes
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
1 Timothy 6:1210 votes
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
1 Peter 5:910 votes
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
Revelation 1:1-2010 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
What does the Bible say about standing up for others?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 31:8-9 on the subject of standing up for others. Across 936 votes, 24 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Isaiah 1:17, Psalms 82:3, Ecclesiastes 4:10. This page lists all 24 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.