Sexual assault

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• Ecclesiastes 4:1

  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.

• Psalms 82:3

  Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

• Psalms 9:9

  The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

• Psalms 72:4

  He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

• Genesis 6:11

  The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

• Habakkuk 1:3

  Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

• Luke 4:18–19

  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

• Isaiah 58:6

  Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

• Ephesians 5:25

  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

• Ephesians 5:28–29

  So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

• Genesis 34:1–31

  And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. …

• Amos 5:12

  For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

• 1 Corinthians 6:18

  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

• Isaiah 10:1–2

  Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

• Galatians 5:14

  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

• Psalms 55:23

  But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

• Psalms 11:5

  The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

• 2 Timothy 3:5–13

  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. …

• Matthew 5:28

  But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

• Proverbs 6:33

  A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

• Romans 13:8–10

  Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.