Bible Verses About Justice

Justice is a key theme in the Bible, and many verses provide powerful insights into what it means to act justly. In this blog post, we’ll explore a selection of short verses about justice. These brief yet impactful scriptures offer guidance on how to live righteously. They guide on how to treat others with fairness, and reflect God’s justice in our daily lives. Perfect for quick inspiration or meditation, these verses remind us of the importance of justice in our faith journey.

Bible Verses About Justice

Micah 6:8 – “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”

Isaiah 1:17 – “Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.”

Proverbs 21:15 – “When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.”

Psalm 82:3 – “Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.”

Deuteronomy 16:20 – “Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”

Jeremiah 22:3 – “Thus says the Lord: ‘Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.'”

Isaiah 61:8 – “For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.”

Proverbs 29:7 – “The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.”

Zechariah 7:9 – “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another.”

Psalm 106:3 – “Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!”

Ezekiel 18:30 – “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your offenses; sin will not be your downfall.”

Proverbs 24:24 – “Whoever says to the wicked, ‘You are in the right,’ will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations.”

Amos 5:24 – “But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”

Psalm 37:28 – “For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.”

Leviticus 19:15 – “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.”

Proverbs 18:5 – “It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.”

Job 8:3 – “Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?”

Psalm 33:5 – “The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.”

Isaiah 58:6 – “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?”

Exodus 23:6 – “You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.”

Proverbs 20:7 – “The righteous who walks in his integrity—blessed are his children after him!”

Lamentations 3:34 – “He does not overlook the oppression of the poor, the perversion of justice, or the denial of justice to the righteous.”

Psalm 146:7 – “Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free.”

Isaiah 42:1 – “Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.”

Proverbs 14:31 – “Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.”

Isaiah 5:20 – “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”

Jeremiah 9:24 – “But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”

Micah 7:18 – “Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.”

Proverbs 21:3 – “To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.”

Isaiah 58:9 – “Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness.”

Deuteronomy 24:17 – “You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge.”

Proverbs 31:9 – “Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.”

Jeremiah 22:16 – “He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.”

Psalm 103:6 – “The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.”

Zephaniah 3:5 – “The Lord within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.”

Proverbs 13:23 – “The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.”

Ezekiel 22:29 – “The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.”

Psalm 9:7 – “But the Lord sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice.”

Job 31:13 – “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me.”

2 Chronicles 19:7 – “Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”

Proverbs 11:1 – “A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.”

Isaiah 11:4 – “But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.”

Proverbs 6:30 – “People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry.”

Isaiah 9:7 – “Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.”

Jeremiah 50:34 – “Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.”

Lamentations 3:34 – “To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth, to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve.”

Isaiah 26:9 – “My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.”

Proverbs 15:3 – “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.”

1 Kings 10:9 – “Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the Lord loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”

Psalm 37:30 – “The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.”

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