100 Bible Verses About Fairness

And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.

As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

When thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

Then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi–ezer?

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

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.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord.

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.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;

Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

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

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

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

For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,

Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

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

And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

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.

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

And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

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

And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.

If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

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

(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

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.

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s cost? or hath he given us any gift?

Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.

And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

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

And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

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.

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.

The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

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

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.

And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.

And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father’s brethren.

And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David’s men with him, over Jordan?

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.

Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.