100 Bible Verses About Equity

Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

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

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.

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

And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.

If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

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

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

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.

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

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

And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.

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

But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

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

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

And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.

The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.

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

But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.

And they said, The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master’s son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.

For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

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

And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

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

Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

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.

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

He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.

The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

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.

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

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

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

And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments.

The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord.

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!

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

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

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:

When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

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.

Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

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