Bible Verses About Injustice

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

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.

The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

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.

But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

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.

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

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

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.