33 Bible Verses about Injustice

O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!

The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.

Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness.

You shall not pervert the justice due the stranger, nor the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as pledge:

You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not show partiality, neither take a bribe: for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

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

An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice of any of the afflicted.

And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, so that he died.

And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.

For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

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

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Since therefore you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

When a wicked man dies, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perishes.

Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells in it? and it shall rise up wholly as the river; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the river of Egypt.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to poverty.

You shall not pervert the justice of your poor in his dispute.

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

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

Therefore the law is slacked, and justice does never go forth: for the wicked does surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest everyone deals falsely.

Cursed be he that perverts the justice due the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he that removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

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

Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

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

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I punish them they shall be cast down, says the LORD.

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest everyone deals falsely.

To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approves not.

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

When Pilate saw that he could gain nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see you to it. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for the high official is watched by a higher one; and there are yet higher ones over them.

You shall neither wrong a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice of any of the afflicted.

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

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he comes, what shall I answer him?

But I say unto you, That you resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David.] Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men? Yea, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see you to that.

And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you testify in a dispute to follow after a crowd to pervert judgment:

But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' position: and Felix, willing to show the Jews a favor, left Paul bound.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? for plundering and violence are before me: and there are those that raise up strife and contention. Therefore the law is slacked, and justice does never go forth: for the wicked does surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.