Bible Verses About Justice System

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 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.

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

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

And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment.

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

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.

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

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

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

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

And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

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

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

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 have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.

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 the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.

But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

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

For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

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

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

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.

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.

Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.