19 Bible Verses about Social Justice

Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the poor and needy.

And the second is like it, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

And having answered, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brothers, the least, ye did it to me.

Thus LORD of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute TRUE justice, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor man. And let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.

Thus says LORD: Execute ye justice and righteousness. And deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong. Do no violence to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in t

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep, thinking the same way toward each other, not thinking on lofty things, but accommodating to the lowly. Become not wise according to yourselves, rendering to no man evil for evil, premeditating things right in the sight of all men.read more.
If possible from you, keeping peace with all men,

He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner in giving him food and raiment.

Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge,

Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

All things therefore, as many as ye may want that men should do to you, so also do ye to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man.

He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, [and] he who gives to a rich man, [comes] only to want.

He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

A righteous man takes knowledge of the cause of the poor. A wicked man has no [such] understanding to know.

He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes shall have many a curse.

And having replied, Jesus said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. And he encountered bandits, who also, having stripped him and having beat him, departed having left him being half dead. And by coincidence a certain priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise also a Levite who happened upon the place, having come, and having looked, passed by on the other side.read more.
But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to him, and when he saw him, felt compassion. And having come, he wrapped up his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. And having set him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow when departing, after taking out two denarii, he gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him, and whatever thou might spend more, I will repay thee at my return. Which therefore, of these three, appears to thee to have become neighbor to the man who fell among the bandits? And he said, He who did mercy with him. Therefore Jesus said to him, Go, and do thou likewise.