19 Bible Verses about Injustice, Nature And Source Of

And the chief priests and all the sanhedrim sought false testimony against Jesus to kill him, and did not find it, though many false witnesses came forward. But afterwards, two coming forward said, This man said, I can destroy the temple of God and build it in three days.

At the same time also he hoped that money would be given him by Paul; and on this account sent for him the oftener, and conversed with him. But after two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and wishing to gratify the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

Then Herod seeing that he was despised by the Magi, was exceedingly angry, and sent and destroyed all the children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the precise time which he had learned of the Magi. Thus was fulfilled the word spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted because they were not.

Then he released Barabbas to them, and having scourged Jesus delivered him up to be crucified.

and they laid hands on them and put them in prison till the next day; for it was now evening.

Then Paul said to him, God is about to strike you, whitewashed wall; and do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?

And he said to them in his teaching, Beware of the scribes who desire to walk in long robes, and desire salutations in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at feasts; who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers. They shall receive a greater judgment.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, kept back by you, cry, and the loud calls of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. You have lived in luxury on the earth and in pleasure, you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and killed the just, and he does not resist you.

By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the devil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that loves not his brother.

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and stood not by the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father of him [that lies].

Fear not what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried, and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

whose coming is according to the power of Satan, with all power and miracles and false prodigies and with every unrighteous deceit among those who are destroyed, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved. And therefore, God sends them a power of delusion that they should believe a lie,

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not against the truth. This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, natural, demoniacal.

I know your works and where you live; where Satan's throne is; and you hold my name, and did not deny my faith in the days in which Antipas my faithful martyr was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Blessed are you when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil against you, falsely, for my sake. Rejoice and exult, for great is your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you.

If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before you. If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:

For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness, idolatry, magic, enmities, strife, envy, anger, contentions, dissensions, heresies, murders, drunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I have also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.