Bible Verses About Justice

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

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

Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

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

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.

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.

And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.

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.

So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.

He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

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

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

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

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.

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

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

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

Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

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

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

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

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.