JUSTICE

Passages on this topic · 56

• Exodus 23:1

  “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

• Exodus 23:2

  “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

• Exodus 23:3

  You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

• Exodus 23:6

  “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

• Exodus 23:7

  “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

• Exodus 23:8

  “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

• Leviticus 19:13

  “‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

• Leviticus 19:14

  “‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 19:15

  “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

• Deuteronomy 16:18

  You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

• Deuteronomy 16:19

  You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

• Deuteronomy 16:20

  You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

• Deuteronomy 25:1

  If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

• Deuteronomy 25:2

  It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

• Deuteronomy 25:3

  He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more; lest, if he should give more, and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

• Deuteronomy 25:4

  You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

• Ezra 7:26

  Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

• Psalms 72:1

  By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.

• Psalms 72:2

  He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

• Psalms 82:2

  “How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.

• Psalms 82:3

  “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

• Psalms 82:4

  Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

• Proverbs 17:15

  He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

• Proverbs 17:26

  Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

• Proverbs 18:5

  To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

• Proverbs 18:17

  He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

• Proverbs 20:8

  A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

• Proverbs 22:27

  If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

• Proverbs 24:23

  These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

• Proverbs 28:21

  To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

• Proverbs 29:26

  Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.

• Ecclesiastes 3:16

  Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

• Ecclesiastes 3:17

  I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

• Ecclesiastes 5:8

  If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

• Ecclesiastes 7:7

  Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

• Isaiah 56:1

  Yahweh says, “Maintain justice, and do what is right; for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

• Isaiah 59:14

  Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

• Isaiah 59:15

  Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

• Jeremiah 22:1

  Thus said Yahweh: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

• Jeremiah 22:2

  ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.

• Jeremiah 22:3

  Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

• Jeremiah 22:4

  For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

• Lamentations 3:35

  To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

• Lamentations 3:36

  To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

• Amos 5:7

  You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

• Amos 5:11

  Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

• Amos 5:12

  For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins — you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

• Micah 7:3

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

• Habakkuk 1:4

  Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

• Zechariah 8:16

  These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

• Matthew 5:23

  “If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

• Matthew 12:7

  But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.

• John 7:24

  Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

• John 7:51

  “Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

• 1 Corinthians 13:6

  doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;