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.
Psalm 119:126
[It is] time for Yahweh to act, [for] they have broken your law.
Ezekiel 9:9
And he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah [is] {exceedingly} great, and the land is filled with bloodguilt, and the city is full of injustice. For they say Yahweh abandoned the land, and {Yahweh does not see}.
Job 21:7
"Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power?
Psalm 58:1-2
Do you really speak [what is] right [when] silent? [Do] you judge fairly the children of humankind?
Isaiah 1:21-23
How has a faithful city become like a whore? Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Isaiah 5:20
Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil, those who put darkness for light and light for darkness, those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Jeremiah 12:1
You [will be] in the right, Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak [my] claims with you. Why does [the] way of [the] wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.
Exodus 23:2
You will not {follow} a majority for evil, and you will not testify concerning a legal dispute to turn aside after a majority to pervert [justice].
Exodus 23:6
" 'You will not pervert the justice of your poor in his legal dispute.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not subvert justice; you shall not {show partiality}; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind [the] eyes of [the] wise and misrepresents [the] words of [the] righteous.
1 Kings 21:13
Then the two men, {scoundrels}, came, sat opposite him, and the {scoundrels} witnessed against Naboth before the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king," so they brought him outside of the city and stoned him with stones, and he died.
Psalm 11:3
When the foundations are destroyed what can [the] righteous do?
Psalm 22:16
Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.
Psalm 59:2
Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and from men of bloodshed save me.
Psalm 59:4
Without guilt on my part they run and ready themselves. Awake to meet me and see.
Psalm 82:1-5
God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of [the] gods.
Psalm 94:3
How long [will the] wicked, O Yahweh, how long will [the] wicked exult?
Psalm 94:20-21
Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute?
Isaiah 59:2-8
Rather, your iniquities have been {barriers} between you and your God, and your sins have hidden [his] face from you, from hearing.
Isaiah 59:13-15
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning {away from following} our God; speaking oppression and falsehood, conceiving and uttering words of deception from [the] heart.
Jeremiah 5:27-29
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses [are] full of fraud. {Therefore} they have become great, and they have become rich.
Jeremiah 12:6
For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call {loudly} after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.
Jeremiah 26:8
{And then} as Jeremiah finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded [him] to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, {saying}, "You will die!
Jeremiah 26:21-23
And when King Jehoiakim, and all his warriors, and all the officials heard his words, then the king sought to put him to death. But Uriah heard, and he was afraid, and he fled and went [to] Egypt.
Jeremiah 37:14-16
And Jeremiah said, "[That is] a lie! I [am] not deserting to the Chaldeans." But he would not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.
Jeremiah 38:4-6
Then the officials said to the king, "Please, this man must be killed, {because} he [is] making slack the hands of {the soldiers} who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking to them words like these, for this man [is] not seeking for welfare to this people, {but only} for harm."
Ezekiel 22:25-30
The conspiracy of its prophets in the midst of her [is] like a roaring lion [that] is tearing prey. They devour people, and they take wealth and treasure; they make its widows numerous in the midst of her.
Hosea 10:4
They utter words of vain oaths [when] {making covenants}, and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field.
Amos 5:7
[Ah,] you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground!
Amos 5:12
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
Micah 2:1-2
Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.
Micah 3:1-3
And I said, "Listen, O heads of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel! [Is it] not for you to know justice?
Micah 7:2-4
The faithful [person] has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother [with] a net.
Matthew 23:34-36
For this [reason], behold, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. [Some] of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will pursue from town to town,
Matthew 26:59-66
Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus in order that they could put him to death.
Matthew 27:1-2
Now [when it] was early morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus in order to put him to death.
Matthew 27:25-26
And all the people answered [and] said, "His blood [be] on us and on our children!"
Mark 7:9
And he said to them, "You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keep your tradition.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand about the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,
Acts 7:59
And they kept on stoning Stephen [as he] was calling out and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"
Acts 23:12-14
And [when it] was day, the Jews made a conspiracy [and] bound themselves under a curse, saying [they would] neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Romans 3:31
Therefore, do we nullify the law through faith? May it never be! But we uphold the law.
James 2:6-7
But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?