Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
General references
Bible References
General references
Deuteronomy 16:18
"You shall appoint judges and officials for you in all your {towns} that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you throughout your tribes, and you shall render [for] the people {righteous judgments}.
Deuteronomy 17:8
"{If a matter is too difficult for you}, [for example disputes] between blood and blood, between legal claim and legal claim and between assault and assault [and between] matters of discernment in your {towns}, then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose;
Deuteronomy 19:17
then the two men {to whom the legal dispute pertains} shall stand {before} Yahweh, {before} the priests and the judges who are [in office] in those days.
Exodus 23:6
" 'You will not pervert the justice of your poor in his legal dispute.
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said to me, the rock of Israel has spoken; 'He who rules over mankind rules righteously, in the fear of God.
2 Chronicles 19:6
And he said to the judges, "Consider what you are doing, for you are not judging for a man but for Yahweh. Now [he is] with you in speaking justice.
Job 29:7
"At my going out [the] gate to [the] city, I secured my seat in the square.
Psalm 58:1
Do you really speak [what is] right [when] silent? [Do] you judge fairly the children of humankind?
Psalm 82:2
"How long will you judge unjustly and {show favoritism to the wicked}? Selah
Proverbs 17:15
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, the two of them [are] both abominations of Yahweh.
Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the {needy}.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do good! Seek justice! Rescue [the] oppressed! Defend [the] orphan! Plead for [the] widow!
Isaiah 5:23
Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove [the] justice of [the] innocent from him.
Isaiah 11:4
But he shall judge [the] poor with righteousness, and he shall decide for [the] needy of [the] earth with rectitude. And he shall strike [the] earth with the rod of his mouth, and he shall kill [the] wicked person with the breath of his lips.
Isaiah 32:1
See, a king will rule according to righteousness, and princes will rule according to justice.
Jeremiah 21:12
O house of David, thus says Yahweh, "Execute judgment in the morning, justice, and deliver [the] one who has been seized from [the] hand of [the] oppressor, lest my wrath goes forth like the fire and it burns, and there is no [one who] quenches [it] because of the evil of your deeds.
Ezekiel 44:24
And at a legal dispute they themselves shall stand to judge; employing my judgments they shall judge it, and [with respect to] my laws and my statutes. All my festivals they shall keep and my Sabbaths they shall consecrate.
Micah 3:1
And I said, "Listen, O heads of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel! [Is it] not for you to know justice?
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice does not go forth perpetually. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
Malachi 3:18
You will return and see [the difference] between [the] righteous and [the] wicked, between [the one who] serves God and the one who does not serve him.
Matthew 3:10
Already now the ax is positioned at the root of the trees; therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.