Bible Verses About Seeking Justice

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

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

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

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.

Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!

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?

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

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

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

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.

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

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

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

The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

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

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

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.

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

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

He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

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.

Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.