Proverbs 31:8-9 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

⁸Open your mouth for those with no voice,

for the cause of all the dispossessed.

⁹Open your mouth, judge righteously,

and defend the cause of the poor and needy.

— Proverbs 31:8-9

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