Justice and Righteousness (Bible Verses)

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Psalms 82:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

Isaiah 42:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

Psalms 45:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Amos 5:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

Isaiah 5:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

Deuteronomy 10:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

Psalms 59:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

Jeremiah 32:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

Micah 3:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

Psalms 96:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

Psalms 75:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

Ezekiel 34:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

Exodus 23:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

Revelation 11:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Amos 5:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

Psalms 72:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.

1 Kings 2:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

Daniel 6:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.

Amos 5:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Isaiah 1:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

Isaiah 41:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

Psalms 9:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

Acts 8:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

Proverbs 15:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

1 Samuel 12:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.

Psalms 21:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

Exodus 18:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Isaiah 32:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

Daniel 7:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.

Proverbs 28:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Micah 3:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Genesis 41:42 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

Isaiah 14:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

Jeremiah 33:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

Micah 6:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

Isaiah 61:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

Deuteronomy 22:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Isaiah 42:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

Amos 5:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

1 Kings 2:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But show kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.

Matthew 14:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

Jeremiah 9:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

Deuteronomy 22:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

Job 22:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Psalms 110:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

Isaiah 59:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Jeremiah 22:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

Psalms 72:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.

1 Kings 2:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

1 Chronicles 18:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.

Job 9:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

Job 29:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

Psalms 99:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

Isaiah 51:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

Nehemiah 9:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

Psalms 94:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

Jeremiah 22:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 34:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

Deuteronomy 17:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

Job 9:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

Job 25:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

Deuteronomy 27:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Ezekiel 26:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

Jeremiah 22:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

Psalms 38:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

Jeremiah 51:62 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

Psalms 72:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Jeremiah 22:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

Psalms 17:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Ezekiel 25:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.

Psalms 72:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

1 Chronicles 18:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.

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