Social Justice (Bible Verses)

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Micah 6:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

James 1:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Isaiah 58:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

Leviticus 19:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come upon thee.

Leviticus 19:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 5:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Exodus 20:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not steal.

James 2:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

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.

Isaiah 58:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Luke 4:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Isaiah 58:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

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

James 5:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Isaiah 1:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Deuteronomy 25:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

Leviticus 25:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

Isaiah 58:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

Hebrews 13:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

Isaiah 58:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Amos 6:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

Isaiah 58:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Matthew 25:41 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

Psalms 113:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

Exodus 20:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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.

Micah 3:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

Proverbs 28:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

Luke 21:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

Proverbs 22:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

Isaiah 1:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

Psalms 82:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

Deuteronomy 27:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Mark 12:41 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

Proverbs 14:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

Deuteronomy 15:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Micah 3:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Isaiah 3:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Leviticus 25:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

Leviticus 5:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Isaiah 3:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Deuteronomy 15:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Amos 1:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

Leviticus 19:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

Amos 3:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

Nehemiah 5:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Exodus 22:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 1:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Deuteronomy 23:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Luke 13:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.

Deuteronomy 15:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

Deuteronomy 24:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Leviticus 25:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

Isaiah 58:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:

Jeremiah 34:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

Amos 4:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:

Amos 7:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

Job 22:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Proverbs 6:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Exodus 21:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Leviticus 19:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Micah 3:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

James 2:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

Amos 5:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

Jeremiah 34:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

Amos 8:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Isaiah 1:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Job 24:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Deuteronomy 23:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Jeremiah 22:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

Habakkuk 2:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

Luke 11:43 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

Bible Theme & Topic Recap: Social Justice

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