Deuteronomy 25:1

"If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,

Deuteronomy 17:8-9

"If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.

Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

Exodus 23:6-7

"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.

Deuteronomy 1:16-17

And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.

Deuteronomy 16:18-20

"You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Deuteronomy 19:17-19

then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.

2 Samuel 23:3

The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,

2 Chronicles 19:6-10

and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.

Job 29:7-17

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

Psalm 58:1-2

Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?

Psalm 82:2-4

"How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Proverbs 31:8-9

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness he shall 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 he shall kill the wicked.

Isaiah 32:1-2

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

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"

Ezekiel 44:24

In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.

Micah 3:1-2

And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?--

Habakkuk 1:4

So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.

Habakkuk 1:13

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

Malachi 3:18

Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

Matthew 3:10

Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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.

Bible References

General references

Deuteronomy 16:18
"You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 17:8
"If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.
Deuteronomy 19:17
then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.
Exodus 23:6
"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,
2 Chronicles 19:6
and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,
Psalm 58:1
Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
Psalm 82:2
"How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Proverbs 17:15
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.
Isaiah 1:17
learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
Isaiah 11:4
but with righteousness he shall 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 he shall kill the wicked.
Isaiah 32:1
Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
Jeremiah 21:12
O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"
Ezekiel 44:24
In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Micah 3:1
And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?--
Habakkuk 1:4
So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
Malachi 3:18
Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
Matthew 3:10
Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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