Bible Verses About Social Injustice
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for social injustice, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,163 votes, led by Psalms 64:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Social Injustice
Psalms 64:683 votes
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
Exodus 20:1-2673 votes
And God spake all these words, saying,
Isaiah 1:1763 votes
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Galatians 3:2863 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.
Micah 6:860 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?
Leviticus 19:1548 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.
Ezekiel 16:49-5042 votes
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
James 1:2731 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.
Jeremiah 22:330 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.
Proverbs 15:128 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 31:925 votes
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Leviticus 19:33-3423 votes
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Psalms 82:322 votes
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Ezekiel 16:4922 votes
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Zechariah 7:9-1022 votes
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Amos 3:220 votes
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Amos 5:1120 votes
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Deuteronomy 24:1719 votes
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
Proverbs 22:1619 votes
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Amos 5:1219 votes
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Amos 5:2419 votes
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Zechariah 7:919 votes
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Matthew 25:4019 votes
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Luke 10:30-3719 votes
And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Amos 5:21-2417 votes
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
What does the Bible say about social injustice?
Readers most often cite Psalms 64:6 on the subject of social injustice. Across 1,163 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 20:1-26, Isaiah 1:17, Galatians 3:28. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.