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Bible Verses About Human Rights

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These are the Bible verses most often cited for human rights, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 158,669 votes, led by Galatians 3:28. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.

Top verses about Human Rights

Galatians 3:284,657 votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Genesis 1:264,199 votes
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Proverbs 31:8-93,907 votes
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Micah 6:83,789 votes
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?
Genesis 1:273,542 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Isaiah 1:173,137 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Psalms 82:33,025 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Colossians 3:112,993 votes
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Romans 13:1-102,708 votes
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Genesis 9:62,308 votes
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
John 3:162,188 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Genesis 1:26-272,057 votes
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Leviticus 19:33-341,994 votes
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Luke 14:13-141,931 votes
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
Psalms 127:31,907 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Leviticus 19:151,859 votes
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Romans 3:231,846 votes
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Psalms 127:3-51,811 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
James 1:271,810 votes
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.
Luke 4:18-191,768 votes
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Matthew 5:221,702 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Revelation 1:11,666 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Joshua 24:151,639 votes
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Leviticus 19:141,638 votes
Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 22:21,623 votes
The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.
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