Deuteronomy 25:1

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Summary

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

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Judges and officers shall you make in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between bloodsheds, between legal rights, and between assaults, being matters of controversy within your gates: then shall you arise, and get you up into the place which the LORD your God shall choose;

Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days;

You shall not pervert the justice of your poor in his dispute.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

And said to the judges, Take heed what you do: for you judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.

When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the open square!

[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David.] Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?

How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

Open your mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all who are left desolate.

Learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

O house of David, thus says the LORD; Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

And in controversy they shall stand as judges; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?

Therefore the law is slacked, and justice does never go forth: for the wicked does surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.