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 shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

If there shall arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and go up to the place which the LORD thy 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;

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

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

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

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

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

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

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

But with righteousness will he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he will smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips will he slay the wicked.

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

O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is made desolate 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 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 hallow my sabbaths.

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

Therefore the law is slackened, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth encompass the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

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