Bible Verses About Justice for Harm

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.

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

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

For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

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

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

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.

O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

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

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

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

Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:

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

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.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

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.

And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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

And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.

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

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

If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

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?

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

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.