26 Bible Verses about Justice, In Believers' Lives

for when the gentiles, who have no law, do by nature what is required by the Law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves; since they show that what the Law requireth is written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and their thoughts in turn accusing or defending them;

And he said to him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." This is the great and first commandment. There is a second like it: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."read more.
On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.

What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, "Thou shalt not covet."

Love worketh no ill to ones neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law.

But we know that the Law is good, if a man use it lawfully, knowing this, that the Law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to the sound teaching,read more.
according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust.

For therein is revealed the righteousness which is of God from faith to faith; as it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

But now, apart from the Law, the righteousness which is of God, to which the Law and the Prophets bear testimony, even the righteousness which is of God through faith in Jesus Christ, hath been made manifest to all and for all believers. For there is no distinction. For all have sinned, and fail of obtaining the glory which cometh from God;read more.
being accepted as righteous freely, by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

but for our sakes also, to whom it will be so accounted through our faith in him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up on account of our trespasses, and raised from the dead that we might be accepted as righteous.

Therefore being accepted as righteous through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

What then shall we say? That the gentiles, who did not strive after righteousness, obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;

Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness."

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith;

So also faith, if it hath not works, is dead in itself.

Then will the king say to those on his right hand, Come, ye blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and ye gave me food; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came to me.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them.

My children, let no one deceive you; he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Blessed are the pure in heart; for they will see God.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Wherefore having put away falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbor; for we are members one of another.

"For he that would love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile;

On this ground do I also myself strive to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men.

And lo! a man named Joseph, of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, being a councilor, and a good and righteous man, who was not consenting to their purpose and deed, and was waiting for the kingdom of God,

while Paul said in his defence, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offence.

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me at that day, and not to me only, but to all those who have loved his appearing.

After these things I saw, and lo! a great multitude, which no one could number, out of every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palms in their hands. And they cry with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God who sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb. And all the angels were standing around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,read more.
saying, Amen; the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honor, and the power, and the might, be to our God, for ever and ever. And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and whence came they? And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they who come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he that sitteth on the throne will make his abode with them. They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more; neither shall the sun fall upon them, nor any burning heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst before the throne is a shepherd to them, and leadeth them to the fountains of the waters of life; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.