Bible Verses About Justice
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for justice, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 201,059 votes, led by Isaiah 1:17. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Justice
Isaiah 1:175,924 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Micah 6:85,629 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?
Amos 5:245,544 votes
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Proverbs 21:154,918 votes
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Isaiah 30:184,718 votes
And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Psalms 33:53,861 votes
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
Isaiah 61:83,794 votes
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.
Psalms 106:33,560 votes
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
Ecclesiastes 3:173,183 votes
I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Proverbs 21:33,090 votes
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Zechariah 7:93,045 votes
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Leviticus 19:153,025 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.
Deuteronomy 32:42,967 votes
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Psalms 82:32,896 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Proverbs 31:92,818 votes
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 28:52,754 votes
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things.
Romans 12:192,713 votes
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Proverbs 24:24-252,547 votes
He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
Psalms 37:282,433 votes
For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms 37:27-292,422 votes
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
Jeremiah 22:32,311 votes
Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Job 37:232,279 votes
Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
Luke 18:1-82,230 votes
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Deuteronomy 16:202,170 votes
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Hosea 12:62,164 votes
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.