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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You shall appoint judges and officers for yourself in all your gates which Jehovah your God gives you, tribe by tribe. And they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

If a matter is too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, matters of strife within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose.

then both the men who are disagreeing shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days.

You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his cause.

The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: he who rules over men justly, ruling in the fear of God,

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

when I went out to the gate by the city; when I prepared my seat in the street!

To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David. Will you indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

How long will you judge unjustly and lift up the faces of the wicked? Selah.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, even both of them are hateful to Jehovah.

Open your mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all the sons of those passing away.

learn to do good; seek judgment, reprove the oppressor. Judge the orphan, plead for the widow.

who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and shall decide with uprightness 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 slay the wicked.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and rulers shall rule in judgment.

O house of David, so says Jehovah: Do judgment in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go out like fire, and burn so that none can put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

And in a dispute they shall stand in judgment; 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 keep My sabbaths holy.

And I said, Please hear, O heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?

Therefore the law has become helpless, and justice does not always go forth. For the wicked entraps the righteous; therefore justice goes forth, being perverted.

Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God, and him who does not serve Him.

And now also, the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.