41 Bible Verses about Injustice, Examples Of

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Mark 7:9-13

And he said to them, Well do ye abrogate the command of God, that ye might keep your tradition. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and he reviling father or mother, in death let him die: And ye say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, which is, a gift, whatever thou be profited by me;read more.
And ye permit him to do nothing more for his father or his mother Abrogating the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

Matthew 15:3-6

And he, having answered, said to them, Wherefore do ye also pass by the command of God by your tradition For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, he calumniating father or mother, in death let him die. And ye say, Whoever should say to father or mother, A gift, whatever thou shouldest be profited by me;read more.
And should not honour his father or his mother. And ye have annulled the command of God by your tradition.

Genesis 27:35

And he will say, Thy brother came with deceit and he will take thy blessing.

Leviticus 20:9-10

When a man, a man who shall lightly esteem his father and his mother, dying, he shall die: he lightly esteemed ha father and his mother: his blood is upon him. And a man who shall commit adultery with a man's wife, who shall commit adultery with his friend's wife, dying, he shall die, the adulterer and the adulteress.

Malachi 2:13-14

And this ye will do the second time, covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, with weepings and shrieks, from not any more looking to the gift, and to take delight from your hand. And ye said, For what? For that Jehovah testified between thee and between the wife of thy youth, which thou didst deal faithlessly against her, and she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant

1 Corinthians 7:4-5

The wife of her own body has not power, but the husband: and likewise also the husband of his own body has not power, but the wife. Deprive ye not one another, except somewhat of an agreement for a time, that ye might have leisure for fasting and prayer; and again upon the same ye might come together, lest Satan tempt you for your want of self command.

Isaiah 59:14-15

And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in. And truth shall be lacking; and he departing from evil being plundered: and Jehovah will see, and it will be evil in his eyes, for no judgment

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shalt not go a slanderer among thy people; thou shalt not stand upon the blood of thy neighbor: I Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 19:14

Thou shalt not remove the boundary of thy neighbor which they at first set bounds in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee to inherit it.

Deuteronomy 23:24-25

When thou shalt come into the vineyard of thy friend, and eat there grapes according to thy soul, to thy satisfying; and thou shalt not give into thy vessel. When thou shalt come into thy friend's standing grain, pluck off the ears with thine hand, and thou shalt not lift up a sickle upon thy friend's standing grain.

Deuteronomy 24:6-7

He shall not take the two mill-stones as a pledge, and the rider, for it is taking the soul as a pledge. If a man shall be found stealing a soul from his brethren from the sons of Israel, and shall lay hands upon him and sell him; and that thief died; and put thou away evil from the midst of thee.

Psalm 101:5

Slandering his neighbor in secret, him will I cut off: him being lofty of eyes and broad of heart, with him I will not eat

Proverbs 3:28-30

Thou shalt not say to thy neighbor, Go, and turn back, and to-morrow I will give; and there is with thee. Thou shalt not fabricate evil upon thy neighbor, and he dwelling confidently with thee. Thou shalt not contend with man to no purpose, if he did thee no evil

Proverbs 23:10-11

Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come: For he redeeming them, he is strong; he will contend their contention with thee.

Proverbs 24:23-24

Also these to the wise. To look upon the face in judgment is not good. He saying to the unjust, Thou art just; peoples shall curse him, and nations shall curse him:

Psalm 26:10

Which in their hands mischief, and their right hand filled with sifts.

Proverbs 28:21

To look upon faces is not good and for a morsel of bread the man will transgress.

Isaiah 5:22-23

Wo to the strong to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink: Justifying the unjust on account of a gift, and they will take away the justice of the just from him.

Isaiah 29:21

Leading a man into sin by a word, and laying snares for him doing justice in the gate, and they will turn aside the just one by vanity.

Hosea 10:4

They spake words swearing falsehood, cutting out a covenant: and judgment broke forth as the head upon the furrows of the field

Habakkuk 1:4

For this, the law will be slack, and judgment will not go forth forever: for the unjust surrounds the just; for this perverted judgment will go forth.

Malachi 2:9

And also I set you despised and low to all the people, according as ye watch not my way, and lift up the face against the law.

Acts 16:36-37

And the jailor announced these words to Paul, That the generals have sent that ye be loosed: now therefore having come out, go in peace. But Paul said to them, Having stripped us publicly not condemned, being Roman men, they cast into prison and now do they cast us out secretly? not so; but having come themselves, let them bring us out.

Isaiah 10:1-2

Wo to those decreeing not decrees, and they wrote writings of labor; To turn away the judgment of the powerless, and to strip off judgment of the distressed of my people, for widows to be their plunder, and they will plunder orphans.

Exodus 1:10-11

Come, we will be wise with them, lest they shall multiply, and it was when war shall happen, and also being added to our armies and fighting against us, and they went up from the land. And they will set over them leaders of the tributes in order to afflict them in their burdens. And they will build cities of stores for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses

Psalm 58:1-2

To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy; to David a poem. Will ye indeed speak dumb justice? will ye judge justly, ye sons of man? Also in heart ye will work evil; in the earth ye will roll the violence of your hands.

Psalm 94:20-21

Shall the throne of mischief be joined together with thee forming labor upon the law? They shall break in upon the soul of the just one, and they shall condemn innocent blood.

Proverbs 31:4-5

Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink: Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction.

Isaiah 1:21

How was the faithful city for a harlot! I filled with judgment; justice will lodge in her; and now they are killing

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