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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 22:21, 22
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt. / You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 23:1–3, 6, 7
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness. / You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd. / And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 19:15, 35, 36
You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly. / You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume. / You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 16:19, 20
Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. / Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 24:17, 18
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security. / Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Job 16:16, 17
My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes; / yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Job 31:13–15
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me, / what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account? / Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 12:5
“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 43:1
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 11:7
When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 17:15
Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 29:27
An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 31:4, 5
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, / lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 3:16
Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 26:10
Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 22:3–5
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place. / For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people. / But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Lamentations 3:34–36
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land, / to deny a man justice before the Most High, / to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 5:11, 12
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. / For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Zephaniah 3:5
The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 3:14
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 16:10
Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
Open passageInjustice: General Scriptures Concerning Revelation 22:11
Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 23:1–3, 6–8
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness. / You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd. / And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 19:13–15
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand. / You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD. / You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 16:18–20
You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment. / Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. / Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 25:1–4
If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned. / If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants. / He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Ezra 7:26
If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 72:1, 2
Of Solomon. Endow the king with Your justice, O God, and the son of the king with Your righteousness. / May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 82:2–4
“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah / Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed. / Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 17:15, 26
Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD. / It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 18:5, 17
Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice. / The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 20:8
A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 28:21
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 29:26
Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 3:16, 17
Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. / I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 56:1
This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 59:14, 15
So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter. / Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 22:1–4
This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there, / saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates. / This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Lamentations 3:35, 36
to deny a man justice before the Most High, / to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 5:7, 11, 12
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground. / Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. / For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Micah 7:3
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Zechariah 8:16
These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 5:23
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 12:7
If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning John 7:24, 51
Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.” / “Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
Open passageJustice: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 13:6
Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
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