Bible Verses About Social Justice
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for social justice, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 16,807 votes, led by Ezekiel 18:20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Social Justice
Ezekiel 18:201,284 votes
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Leviticus 19:151,026 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.
Exodus 23:1-3761 votes
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Deuteronomy 1:16-17641 votes
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Malachi 2:17639 votes
Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
James 4:4575 votes
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 John 2:15-16563 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Jude 1:7-8558 votes
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Galatians 1:6-9537 votes
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Micah 6:8523 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?
2 Corinthians 11:4519 votes
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Habakkuk 1:4443 votes
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Romans 12:2438 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11299 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
2 Peter 2:1-2275 votes
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Zechariah 7:9-10259 votes
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Proverbs 6:16-19252 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
1 John 2:15-17238 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Zephaniah 2:10-11234 votes
This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts.
Leviticus 24:22231 votes
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 16:20214 votes
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
James 1:27211 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.
Romans 10:12207 votes
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Galatians 3:28204 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.
Exodus 23:2-3193 votes
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
What does the Bible say about social justice?
Readers most often cite Ezekiel 18:20 on the subject of social justice. Across 16,807 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 19:15, Exodus 23:1-3, Deuteronomy 1:16-17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.