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100 Bible Verses about Justice And Fairness

Micah 6:8 ESV / 522 helpful votes

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 ESV / 478 helpful votes

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Psalm 106:3 ESV / 443 helpful votes

Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!

Proverbs 21:15 ESV / 438 helpful votes

When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

Leviticus 19:15 ESV / 418 helpful votes

“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 31:9 ESV / 416 helpful votes

Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 369 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Ecclesiastes 3:17 ESV / 362 helpful votes

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.

Zechariah 7:9 ESV / 355 helpful votes

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

Amos 5:24 ESV / 340 helpful votes

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Psalm 33:5 ESV / 327 helpful votes

He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.

Isaiah 61:8 ESV / 325 helpful votes

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 ESV / 313 helpful votes

A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

Deuteronomy 16:20 ESV / 311 helpful votes

Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Colossians 4:1 ESV / 310 helpful votes

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Hosea 12:6 ESV / 305 helpful votes

“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”

Job 8:3 ESV / 299 helpful votes

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

Exodus 23:6 ESV / 298 helpful votes

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.

Proverbs 21:3 ESV / 292 helpful votes

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 282 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 28:5 ESV / 277 helpful votes

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 ESV / 276 helpful votes

Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.

Proverbs 16:11 ESV / 270 helpful votes

A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 257 helpful votes

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 252 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Psalm 7:11 ESV / 251 helpful votes

God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 250 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Romans 2:11 ESV / 247 helpful votes

For God shows no partiality.

Psalm 99:4 ESV / 245 helpful votes

The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Psalm 37:27-29 ESV / 242 helpful votes

Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever. 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. The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 239 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Exodus 23:3 ESV / 238 helpful votes

Nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.

Acts 10:34 ESV / 229 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,

Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 227 helpful votes

Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 225 helpful votes

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.

James 2:1 ESV / 224 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 220 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 214 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Hebrews 10:30 ESV / 213 helpful votes

For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

Job 12:22 ESV / 210 helpful votes

He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.

Isaiah 56:1 ESV / 208 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my righteousness be revealed.

Ecclesiastes 5:8 ESV / 208 helpful votes

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 206 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

James 3:17 ESV / 205 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Psalm 50:6 ESV / 202 helpful votes

The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah

Psalm 9:8 ESV / 202 helpful votes

And he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.

Deuteronomy 32:4 ESV / 198 helpful votes

“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

Psalm 89:14 ESV / 197 helpful votes

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 195 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Psalm 112:5 ESV / 194 helpful votes

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.

Matthew 20:16 ESV / 192 helpful votes

So the last will be first, and the first last.”

Psalm 82:3 ESV / 189 helpful votes

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

John 3:16 ESV / 187 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

2 Chronicles 19:7 ESV / 186 helpful votes

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.”

2 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV / 183 helpful votes

Since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

Isaiah 51:4-5 ESV / 174 helpful votes

“Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples. My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.

Exodus 23:1-33 ESV / 171 helpful votes

“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit. “If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him. ...

Luke 18:1-8 ESV / 169 helpful votes

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” ...

Amos 5:7 ESV / 168 helpful votes

O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Isaiah 61:8-9 ESV / 168 helpful votes

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. Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.

Proverbs 24:24-25 ESV / 168 helpful votes

Whoever says to the wicked, “You are in the right,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations, but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will come upon them.

Proverbs 17:15 ESV / 168 helpful votes

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 167 helpful votes

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...

Matthew 5:38-39 ESV / 167 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

James 2:1-4 ESV / 166 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Isaiah 30:18-19 ESV / 165 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 164 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 159 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 158 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 157 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Proverbs 18:5 ESV / 157 helpful votes

It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.

Psalm 103:6 ESV / 155 helpful votes

The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.

Job 37:23 ESV / 155 helpful votes

The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

Habakkuk 1:4 ESV / 154 helpful votes

So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.

Job 34:12 ESV / 154 helpful votes

Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.

Isaiah 51:4 ESV / 153 helpful votes

“Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.

Psalm 67:4 ESV / 153 helpful votes

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah

Psalm 37:28 ESV / 151 helpful votes

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.

James 2:1-5 ESV / 149 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

Proverbs 17:23 ESV / 149 helpful votes

The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.

2 Chronicles 9:8 ESV / 148 helpful votes

Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the Lord your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”

1 Chronicles 18:14 ESV / 148 helpful votes

So David reigned over all Israel, and he administered justice and equity to all his people.

Matthew 7:1 ESV / 147 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged.

1 Kings 10:9 ESV / 147 helpful votes

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.”

2 Samuel 15:4 ESV / 147 helpful votes

Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”

Genesis 18:19 ESV / 147 helpful votes

For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

Colossians 3:11 ESV / 144 helpful votes

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

Deuteronomy 33:21 ESV / 144 helpful votes

He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the Lord, and his judgments for Israel.”

Luke 11:42 ESV / 143 helpful votes

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Proverbs 11:1 ESV / 137 helpful votes

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.

Psalm 140:12 ESV / 132 helpful votes

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.

Exodus 23:2 ESV / 129 helpful votes

You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

Proverbs 25:26 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Romans 13:4 ESV / 105 helpful votes

For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Luke 6:37 ESV / 105 helpful votes

“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;

Luke 18:1 ESV / 103 helpful votes

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

James 4:17 ESV / 101 helpful votes

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Isaiah 33:5 ESV / 99 helpful votes

The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,

Isaiah 9:7 ESV / 98 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 86 helpful votes

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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