28 Bible Verses about Justice

Speak and present your case. Yes, let them consult one another. Who revealed this in the distant past and predicted it long ago? Was it not I, Jehovah? There is no other God except me. There is no other righteous God and Savior besides me.

Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.

I can do nothing by myself. So I hear and judge and my judgment is righteous. I do not seek my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvelous are your works, Jehovah God, the Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of the ages (Eternal King) (King of the nations) (King of the holy ones). (Deuteronomy 31:30; 32:4) (Exodus 6:3)

Jehovah is righteous within her. He will do no wrong. He brings justice to the dawn of the morning. He does not fail! Yet the unjust know no shame.

I told them it is not the Roman practice to deliver any man to die before his accusers face him. He should answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

So David ruled all Israel. He did what was fair and right for all his people.

But he did not put their children to death. The orders of Jehovah recorded in the book of the law of Moses say: The fathers are not to be put to death for the children, or the children for their fathers; but each man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Besides, who is going to pay attention to what you have to say in this matter? The share of those who go into battle must be like the share of those who stay with the supplies. They will all share alike.

We cannot find the Almighty. He is exalted in power but will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous having salvation. He is humble, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the son of a she ass.

The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus. You handed him over to Pilate. When he was determined to let him go you denied him. You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and requested a murderer to be released to you.

Now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be respected, who keeps faith and mercy, do not let his trouble seem small to you. It has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day. You have been in the right in everything that happened to us. You have been true to us, but we have done evil!

Jehovah is righteous within her. He will do no wrong. He brings justice to the dawn of the morning. He does not fail! Yet the unjust know no shame.

Masters, give your servants that which is just and equal. You know that you also have a Master in heaven.

Defend the weak and fatherless. Protect the rights of the oppressed and the poor.

Only strive for justice so you will live and take possession of the land that Jehovah your God is giving you.

Jehovah says: Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

To practice righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvelous are your works, Jehovah God, the Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of the ages (Eternal King) (King of the nations) (King of the holy ones). (Deuteronomy 31:30; 32:4) (Exodus 6:3)

The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

The Son has life in himself just as the Father has life in himself. For the Father gave him life. And he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man. Do not wonder about this for the hour is coming when everyone in the grave will hear his voice. read more.
They will return. Those who did good will have the resurrection of life. Those who did evil will receive the resurrection of judgment. I can do nothing by myself. So I hear and judge and my judgment is righteous. I do not seek my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

The days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch. He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.

But with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth (power of his words), and with the spirit (breath) of his lips he will destroy the wicked.

This is in Jehovah's presence because he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and its people with fairness.

Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.

You must have a full and just weight. You should have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.

Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every city Jehovah your God gives you. They are to judge the people fairly.

O house of David, Jehovah says: Administer justice every morning. Deliver the person who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. That way I may not have to offer my wrath like fire and burn with none to extinguish it, because of the evil of your deeds.'

Only strive for justice so you will live and take possession of the land that Jehovah your God is giving you.

Jehovah says: Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

If he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man, if he lives by my rules and obeys my laws faithfully this person is righteous. He will certainly live,' declares the Lord Jehovah.

I have done justice and righteousness. Do not leave me to my oppressors.

The king who faithfully judges the poor will have his throne established forever.

Open your mouth and judge righteously. Plead the cause of the poor and needy.

The God of Israel has spoken. The protector of Israel said to me: 'The king who rules with justice, who rules in obedience to God.

This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'I have had enough of you, you princes of Israel.' 'Stop your violence and looting, and do what is fair and right. Stop evicting my people,' declares the Lord Jehovah.

Jehovah says: Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

To practice righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.

Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.

A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.

Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.

I know you have many transgressions and your sins are great. You afflict the righteous. You take bribes. You refuse to help the needy at the gate.

I have become a laughingstock to my friends! I called upon God and he answered. Yet I am a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!

Jehovah your God will deliver them over to you. He will throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the country, do not be shocked at the sight. One official watches over another official and there are higher officials over them.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

One day two women who were prostitutes came to the king. One of them said: Your Majesty, this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby boy at home while she was there. Two days after my child was born she also gave birth to a baby boy. Only the two of us were there in the house. No one else was there. read more.
One night she accidentally rolled over on her baby and smothered it. She got up during the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She took him to her bed and put the dead child in my bed. The next morning I woke up and was going to nurse my baby. It was dead. I looked at it more closely and saw that it was not my child. The other woman said: The living child is mine, and the dead one is yours! The first woman answered back: The dead child is yours, and the living one is mine! They argued before the king. King Solomon said: Each of you claims that the living child is hers and that the dead child belongs to the other one. He sent for a sword. When it arrived, he said: Cut the living child in two and give each woman half of it. With a heart full of love for her son the real mother said: Please, Your Majesty, do not kill the child! Give it to her! But the other woman said: Do not give it to either of us cut it in two. Then Solomon said: Do not kill the child! Give it to the first woman. She is the real mother.

He said to him: Because you have asked for the wisdom to rule justly, instead of long life for yourself or riches or the death of your enemies, I will do what you have asked. I will give you more wisdom and understanding than anyone has ever had. There has never been nor will ever be anyone like you.

He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil. This man will dwell on the heights. His refuge will be the mountain fortress. His bread will be supplied, and he will have water.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice. Destruction will come to those who do evil.

Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Masters, give your servants that which is just and equal. You know that you also have a Master in heaven.

An ungodly witness scorns judgment. The mouth of the wicked devours evil.

Jehovah sent you on a mission. He said: Go and destroy those sinners, the Amalekites. Fight against them until every one is dead.

If a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness, and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period; if a man does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing. read more.
If he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man, if he lives by my rules and obeys my laws faithfully this person is righteous. He will certainly live,' declares the Lord Jehovah.

Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household; and that they may remain in the righteous and just way of Jehovah. Jehovah will bring to Abraham what he told him.

The people answered: You have not cheated us or oppressed us. You have not taken anything from anyone.

Joseph was a member of the council and a good and righteous man. He was from Arimathaea a city of the Jews and was looking for the kingdom of God.

So David ruled all Israel. He did what was fair and right for all his people.

Moses became angry and said to Jehovah: Do not accept their offering. I have not taken anything from them, not even a donkey. And I have not mistreated any of them.

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness?

A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.

The God of Israel has spoken. The protector of Israel said to me: 'The king who rules with justice, who rules in obedience to God.

To receive instruction with wisdom, justice, judgment and integrity.

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away. Truth has fallen in the street, and honesty cannot come in.

God did not spare the natural branches and he will not spare you!

At midnight Jehovah killed every firstborn male in Egypt from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who ruled the land to the firstborn son of the prisoner in jail, and also every firstborn animal.

Give me the wisdom I need to rule your people with justice. Help me know the difference between good and evil. Otherwise, how would I ever be able to rule this great people of yours?

Learn to do good (well) (right). Seek justice. Correct oppressors. Defend orphans. Plead the case of widows.

No one calls for justice and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

He did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly!

God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to captivity in pits of darkness reserved for judgment!

He turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, and made them an example to those who are ungodly.

He that did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe makes the discerning blind to what is right and perverts the words of the righteous.

Woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God. You should have done these but you leave them undone.

Please hear this you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. You who abhor justice, and pervert honesty!

He told you, O lowly man, what is good and what Jehovah requires of you. You should display justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God!

The king who faithfully judges the poor will have his throne established forever.

Defend the weak and fatherless. Protect the rights of the oppressed and the poor.

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he also will cry, but will not be heard.

He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy. Then it was well. Is that not what it means to know me? Says Jehovah.