- "Cease to do evil; learn to do well ... relieve the oppressed ... plead for the widow."
1:16
- "Come now, let us reason together."
1:18
- "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
2:4
- Woe to them who drink too much.
5:11
- "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil."
5:20
- Woe to those who won't help the poor.
10:0
- The vile person will no longer be called liberal.
32:5
- For the vile person is an evil hypocrite, who lies to destroy the poor.
32:6
- "The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand."
32:8
- "All flesh is grass."
Since all animals, including humans, survive by eating plants or other animals that have eaten
plants, it is true that "all flesh is grass."
40:6
- God's spirit kills grass and flowers. Humans are grass, too.
40:7
- I (God) will help the poor and needy.
41:17
- "Let the oppressed go free ... break every yoke."
This verse appear to condemn slavery. However the bible is far from clear on this issue.
58:6
- Feed the hungry, house the homeless, clothe the naked.
58:7