19 occurrences in 12 translations

'Justice' in the Bible

‘Prepare the chain [for imprisonment], for the land is full of bloody crimes [murders committed under the pretense of civil justice] and the city is full of violence.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthChainsFilling PlacesViolenceIron ChainsKilling The InnocentGod's People SinningBreaking Chains

The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord!"

Verse ConceptsClothed With Bad ThingsGroups TremblingPeople Involved In JudgementPeople AppalledPeople Mourning Catastrophe

And if a man be righteous, and do judgment and justice:

He doesn’t lend at interest or for profit but keeps his hand from wrongdoing and carries out true justice between men.

Verse ConceptsExcessGreed, Believers' Response ToInterestLending

And ye say, Why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? But the son hath done judgment and justice, hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them; he shall certainly live.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltSins Of The FathersResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsFathers Responsibilities

And the wicked, if he turn from all his sins which he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do judgment and justice, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.

Verse ConceptsRenunciationSin, Accepting Forgiveness OfBlessings Of ObediencePunishment of the The Wicked

And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness which he hath committed, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall keep his soul alive.

Verse ConceptsTurning From EvilLife Through Repentance

Then I will bring you to the desert of the peoples, and I will execute justice on you there face to face.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodBeing Face To Face With God

{Just as} I executed justice on your ancestors in the desert of the land of Egypt, likewise I will execute justice on you!" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsJudgement In The Wilderness

And you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not save him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stagger because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness, whereas a righteous man will not be able to live because of his [previous acts of] righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’

Verse ConceptsPeople In RighteousnessThings Which Cannot Save

"If I tell the wicked person that he will certainly die, if he turns from his sin and acts with justice and righteousness,

None of his sins which he hath committed shall be remembered against him: he hath done judgment and justice; he shall certainly live.

Verse ConceptsGod Forgetting

And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall live for these things.

Verse ConceptsLife Through Repentance

And I will execute justice with him with a plague and with blood and {torrents of rain}, and hailstones; fire and sulfur I will cause to fall on him and on his troops and on many peoples who [are] with him.

Verse ConceptsRainWeather, As God's JudgmentBrimstoneGod KillingFire From HeavenFire Of JudgementSulphurGod Will Kill The PeoplesEzekiel Invasion

“And I will bring [and manifest] My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment and justice [in the punishment] which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorGlory, Revelation OfGod's HandGod's Hands In Opposition

When I bring them back from the nations and gather them out of their enemies’ lands, then I shall show Myself holy [and My justice and holiness will be vindicated] through them in the sight of many nations.

Verse ConceptsGathering Israel

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toViolenceCessationStopping EvilAvoiding ViolenceNot Destroyedcheaters

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