Justice (Bible Verses)

What does the Bible say about Justice? Explore this dedicated resource for a comprehensive study of the scriptures and key verses related to Justice. This guide is designed to cater to both beginners and advanced students of the Bible, providing a deeper understanding of Bible themes and their significance. Dive into a rich tapestry of historical contexts, detailed exegesis, and thematic studies that offer practical applications and spiritual guidance. Engage with the transformative power of scripture as we uncover the meaning, divine wisdom, and eternal truths about the Bible verses related to the topic of Justice, enhancing how we perceive and live out our faith.

Proverbs 28:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Micah 6:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Luke 18:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Isaiah 1:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 49:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

Isaiah 8:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Jeremiah 9:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

Matthew 23:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Romans 2:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For there is no respect of persons with God.

Exodus 20:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not kill.

Matthew 5:38 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

Hebrews 10:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

Deuteronomy 24:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

Isaiah 42:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

Matthew 5:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Isaiah 59:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.

Isaiah 42:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

Proverbs 21:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

James 5:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Isaiah 1:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Romans 12:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

Deuteronomy 21:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 24:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Isaiah 32:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

1 Corinthians 6:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Psalms 89:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

Psalms 7:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

Revelation 6:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Amos 5:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Ecclesiastes 8:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Lamentations 3:38 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

Proverbs 24:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

Isaiah 2:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Proverbs 29:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Matthew 12:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

Malachi 4:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Luke 18:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

Ezekiel 18:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

Psalms 45:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

Deuteronomy 10:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Micah 2:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

Isaiah 33:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

Ezekiel 18:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

Exodus 23:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Leviticus 19:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

Leviticus 19:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor; I am the LORD.

Isaiah 56:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

1 Samuel 30:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.

Isaiah 61:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Isaiah 11:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

Jeremiah 23:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Isaiah 32:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Psalms 82:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

Proverbs 11:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

1 Corinthians 6:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Proverbs 1:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

Acts 23:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Micah 4:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Amos 5:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

Psalms 26:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Jeremiah 22:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 33:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

Deuteronomy 24:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

Proverbs 14:34 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Exodus 23:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

Proverbs 22:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

Isaiah 11:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

Jeremiah 22:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

Proverbs 25:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

Luke 11:42 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

John 7:51 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?

Psalms 35:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Bible Theme & Topic Recap: Justice

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