33 Bible Verses about Injustice

O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you "Violence!" and you will not save?

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.

Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.

In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.

"You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

"How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, but one whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.

And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit."

Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.

And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.

saying, "When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,

Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.

Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

When the wicked dies, his hope will perish, and the expectation of wealth perishes too.

Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?"

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.

"How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

"For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

"'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

"'Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor's landmark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

"You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

"You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.

Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.

"For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve.

To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood;see to it yourselves." And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!" Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

"You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, but one whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.

lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.

Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.

"If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly? No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.

saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself."

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.

If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly and does not see the majesty of the LORD.

You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

When two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And desiring to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.

"Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."

"One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.