28 Bible Verses about Justice

Announce ye, and bring near; also ye shall take counsel together: who caused this to be heard from of old, from then announcing it? was it not I Jehovah? and no God more beside me; a just God and Saviour; none beside me.

Weighing and balances of judgment are to Jehovah, and his work all the stones of the bag.

I can do nothing of myself: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; for I seek not my will, but the will of the Father having sent me.

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful thy works, O Lord God, Omnipotent Ruler; just and true thy ways, King of the holy.

Jehovah is just in her midst; he will not do iniquity: in morning by morning he will give his judgment to the light, he as not wanting; and the evil will not know shame.

To whom I answered, That it is not the custom to Romans to yield up any man to destruction, before that the accused may have the accusers before the face, and take place for defence for the accusation.

And David will reign over all Israel; and David will be doing judgment and justice to all his people.

The sons of those striking he put not to death: according as it was written in the book of the Laws of Moses which Jehovah commanded, saying, Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, and sons shall not be put to death for fathers; but a man shall be put to death in his sin.

Shalt thou reign, for thou art kindled with cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice, then it was well to him?

And who will hear to you for this word? for as the part of him going clown in the war, and so the part of him sitting by the vessels: together shall they divide.

The Almighty we found not: great of power and judgment, and much justice, he will not afflict

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; make a loud noise, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king shall come to thee: just, and saving; he is humble and riding upon an ass, and upon an ass's colt the son of asses.

The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, God of our fathers, has honoured his child Jesus; whom ye have delivered up, and denied him before the face of Pilate, he having judged to loose. And ye denied the Holy and Just, and demanded a man, a murderer, to be yielded to you.

And now our God, the great the mighty, and the terrible God, watching the covenant and the mercy, it shall not be little before thee all the distress which found us, to our kings, to our chiefs, to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers, and to all thy people from the days of the kings of Assur even to this day. And thou art just for all brought upon us; for thou didst the truth and we were evil:

Jehovah is just in her midst; he will not do iniquity: in morning by morning he will give his judgment to the light, he as not wanting; and the evil will not know shame.

Lords, render ye to servants Justice and equality; knowing that ye also have a Lord in the heavens.

Judge ye the poor one, and the orphan: do justice to the humble one and the poor one

Justice, justice shalt thou follow, so that thou live and inherit the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

Thus said Jehovah, Watch ye judgment and do justice; for my salvation drew near to come, and my justice to be uncovered.

To do justice and judgment was chosen by Jehovah above gold.

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful thy works, O Lord God, Omnipotent Ruler; just and true thy ways, King of the holy.

Therefore truly the law holy, and the command holy, and just, and good.

For as the Father has life in himself, so also gave he to the Son to have life in himself; And gave him authority also to do judgment, because he is the Son of man. Wonder not at this: for the hour comes, in which all they in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall go forth; read more.
They having done good, to rising up of life; and they having done bad, to rising up of judgment. I can do nothing of myself: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; for I seek not my will, but the will of the Father having sent me.

Behold the days coming, says Jehovah, and I raised up to David a just sprout, and a king reigned and prospered, and he did judgment and justice in the earth.

And he judged the powerless with justice, and he decided in straightness for the humble of the earth: and he struck the earth with the rod of his mouth, and by the spirit of his lips he will slay the unjust.

Before Jehovah; for he came to judge the earth: he will judge the habitable globe in justice, and the peoples in uprightness

Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

A stone complete and just shall be to thee; an ephah complete and just

Judges and scribes shall thou give to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee according to thy tribes: and they judged the people just judgment

O house of David, thus said Jehovah, Judge judgment for the morning, and deliver him taken by force from the hand of him oppressing, lest my wrath shall go forth as fire, and burn, and none quenching from the face of the evil of your doings.

Justice, justice shalt thou follow, so that thou live and inherit the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

Thus said Jehovah, Watch ye judgment and do justice; for my salvation drew near to come, and my justice to be uncovered.

And he shall not give upon interest, and he shall not take interest, from iniquity he shall turn back his hand; he shall do judgment of truth between man to man. In my laws he shall go and he watched my judgments to do the truth; he is just; living, he shall live, says the Lord Jehovah.

I did judgment and justice: thou wilt not leave me to those oppressing me.

The king judging the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for a testimony.

Open thy mouth; judge justly, and contend for the poor and needy.

The God of Israel said to me, the Rock of Israel spake a parable upon the just man: a parable to fear God.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you, O princes of Israel: remove ye violence and oppression, and do judgment and justice, lift up your expulsions from off my people, says the Lord Jehovah.

Thus said Jehovah, Watch ye judgment and do justice; for my salvation drew near to come, and my justice to be uncovered.

To do justice and judgment was chosen by Jehovah above gold.

Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight

A stone and stone, an ephah and ephah, an abomination of Jehovah, also they two.

Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight

Weighing and balances of judgment are to Jehovah, and his work all the stones of the bag.

For I knew your many transgressions, and your strong sins: pressing upon the just, taking a ransom, and they turned away the needy in the gate

I shall be he laughing at his neighbor, calling to God, and he will answer him: the just blameless one being laughed at

And Jehovah thy God sire then before thee and destroyed and discomfited them in great consternation till he destroyed them.

If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.

As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things.

Then will come two women, harlots, to the king, and they will stand before him. And the one woman will say, With leave, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house; and I shall bring forth with her in the house. And it will be in the third day after I brought forth, and also this woman will bring forth: and we together, and no stranger with us in the house besides we two in the house. read more.
And the son of this woman will die in the night when she lay upon him. And she will rise in the middle of the night and take my son from beside me, and thy servant sleeping; and she will lay him in her bosom and her dead son she laid in my bosom. And I shall rise in the morning to suckle my son, and behold, he was dead: and I shall attend to him in the morning, and behold, it was not my son that I brought forth. And the other woman will say, Nay; for my son the living, and thy son the dead. And this said, No; for thy son the dead, and my son the living. And they spake before the king. And the king will say, This says, My son the living, and thy son the dead; and this says, Nay; for thy son the dead, and my son the living. And the king will say, Take to me a sword. And they will bring the sword before the king. And the king will say, Divide the living child in two, and ye shall give the half to the one, and the half to the other. And the woman to whom the living son, will say to the king, for her bowels were warm upon her son, and she will say, With leave, my lord, ye shall give to her the living child, and slaying, ye shall not slay him. And this said, It shall not be even to me, even to thee; divide it And the king will answer and say, Ye shall give to her the living child, and slaying, ye shall not slay it: she is his mother.

And God will say to him, Because thou didst ask this word, and didst not ask for thyself many days; and didst not ask for thyself riches, and didst not ask the soul of thine enemies: and didst ask for thyself to have understanding to hear judgment; Behold, I did according to thy word, I gave to thee a wise and understanding heart; that there was not as thou before thee, and after thee there shall not arise like thee.

He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil; He shall dwell upon heights: the strongholds of rocks his height: his bread was given; his waters sure.

Joy to the just one to do judgment: and destruction to those working iniquity.

Shalt thou reign, for thou art kindled with cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice, then it was well to him?

Lords, render ye to servants Justice and equality; knowing that ye also have a Lord in the heavens.

A witness of Belial shall mock judgment: and the mouth of the unjust will swallow down iniquity.

And Jehovah will send thee in the way, and he will say, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners Amalek, and fight against him even till ye consumed them.

And if a man shall be just and do judgment and justice, Not to eat upon the mountains, and not to lift up his eyes to the blocks of the house of Israel, and not to defile his neighbor's wife, and he shall not come near to a woman of uncleanness. And he shall not oppress a man; he shall turn back his pledge to the debtor; he will not strip off plunder, his bread he will give to him hungry, and the naked he will cover with a garment; read more.
And he shall not give upon interest, and he shall not take interest, from iniquity he shall turn back his hand; he shall do judgment of truth between man to man. In my laws he shall go and he watched my judgments to do the truth; he is just; living, he shall live, says the Lord Jehovah.

Shalt thou reign, for thou art kindled with cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice, then it was well to him?

For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him.

And they will say, Thou didst not oppress us, and thou didst not vex us, and thou didst not take any thing from man's hand.

And, behold, a man Joseph by name, being a counsellor; good and just: (The same was not set together in the counsel and deed of them;) from Arimathea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.

And David will reign over all Israel; and David will be doing judgment and justice to all his people.

And it will be kindled to Moses greatly, and he will say to Jehovah, Thou wilt not turn to their gift: not one ass did I take from them, and I did not evil to one of them.

Those forsaking the paths of straightness to go in the ways of darkness;

Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight

The God of Israel said to me, the Rock of Israel spake a parable upon the just man: a parable to fear God.

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice and judgment, and uprightness;

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.

For if God spared not the young shoots according to nature, how will he either spare thee

And it will be in the middle of the night, and Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, to the first-born of the captive which is in the house of the pit; and every first-born of the cattle.

And give to thy servant a heart to hear to judge thy people to discern between good to evil: for who shall be able to judge this thy weighty people?

Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.

None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.

And spared not the old world, but Noah the eighth, a herald of justice, he watched, having brought an inundation upon the world of the irreligious;

For if God spared not the angels having sinned, but delivered up, hurled into Tartarus, to cords of darkness, having been kept for judgment;

And the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha having reduced to ashes, condemned with a catastrophe, a pattern set to them about to act irreligiously;

Who truly spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, and how not with him will he freely give us all?

And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words.

But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe spearmint and rue and every plant, and ye pass by the judgment and love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left those.

Hear now this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and judges of the house of Israel abhorring judgment, and they will pervert all uprightness.

He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God?

The king judging the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for a testimony.

Judge ye the poor one, and the orphan: do justice to the humble one and the poor one

He stopping his ear from the cry of the poor one also himself shall call and shall not be answered.

He judged the judgment of the poor and the needy; then it was well: was this not knowing me? says Jehovah.