Justice
74 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
36 sections
- Apostles
- Brings Its own Reward
- Christ, an Example of
- Commanded
- David
- General Scriptures Concerning
- Gifts Impede
- God: Delights In
- God: Displeased with the Want of
- God: Gives Wisdom to Execute
- God: Requires
- God: Sets the Highest Value On
- Joseph
- Josiah
- Moses
- Promises To
- Saints should Always Do
- Saints should Pray for Wisdom to Execute
- Saints should Receive Instruction In
- Saints should Study the Principles of
- Saints should Take Pleasure in Doing
- Saints should Teach Others to Do
- Samuel
- Solomon
- Specially Required in Rulers
- The Wicked: Abhor
- The Wicked: Afflict Those Who Act With
- The Wicked: Banish
- The Wicked: Call not For
- The Wicked: Pass Over
- The Wicked: Scorn
- To be Done in Buying and Selling
- To be Done in Executing Judgment
- To be Done: To Servants
- To be Done: To the Fatherless and Widows
- To be Done: To the Poor
Apostles
- 1 Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.
Brings Its own Reward
- Jeremiah 22:15 Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
Christ, an Example of
- Psalm 98:9 before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.
- Isaiah 11:4 but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
- Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
Commanded
- Deuteronomy 16:20 Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Isaiah 56:1 This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.
David
- 2 Samuel 8:15 Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:
General Scriptures Concerning
- Exodus 23:1–3 “You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness. …
- Exodus 23:6–8 You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits. …
- Leviticus 19:13–15 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand. …
- Deuteronomy 16:18–20 You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment. …
- Deuteronomy 25:1–4 If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned. …
- Ezra 7:26 If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
- Psalm 72:1–2 Endow the king with Your justice, O God, and the son of the king with Your righteousness. …
- Psalm 82:2–4 “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah …
- Proverbs 17:15 Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous— both are detestable to the LORD.
- Proverbs 17:26 It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.
- Proverbs 18:5 Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.
- Proverbs 18:17 The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
- Proverbs 20:8 A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
- Proverbs 22:27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
- Proverbs 24:23 These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
- Proverbs 28:21 To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
- Proverbs 29:26 Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.
- Ecclesiastes 3:16–17 Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. …
- Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
- Ecclesiastes 7:7 Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
- Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- Isaiah 56:1 This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.
- Isaiah 59:14–15 So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter. …
- Jeremiah 22:1–4 This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there, …
- Lamentations 3:35–36 to deny a man justice before the Most High, …
- Amos 5:7 There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
- Amos 5:11–12 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. …
- Micah 7:3 Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
- Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
- Zechariah 8:16 These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
- Matthew 5:23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
- Matthew 12:7 If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
- John 7:24 Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
- John 7:51 “Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
- 1 Corinthians 13:6 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
Gifts Impede
- Exodus 23:8 Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
God: Delights In
- Proverbs 11:1 Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
God: Displeased with the Want of
- Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
God: Gives Wisdom to Execute
- 1 Kings 3:11–12 So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies — but you have asked for discernment to administer justice — …
- Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
- Proverbs 2:9 Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity— every good path.
God: Requires
- Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
God: Sets the Highest Value On
- Proverbs 2:13 from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
Joseph
- Luke 23:50–51 Now there was a Council member named Joseph, a good and righteous man, …
Josiah
- Jeremiah 22:15 Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
Moses
- Numbers 16:15 Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”
Promises To
- Isaiah 33:15–16 He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil— …
- Jeremiah 7:5 For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
- Jeremiah 7:7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
Saints should Always Do
- Psalm 119:121 I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.
- Ezekiel 18:8–9 He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men. …
Saints should Pray for Wisdom to Execute
- 1 Kings 3:9 Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”
Saints should Receive Instruction In
- Proverbs 1:3 and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.
Saints should Study the Principles of
- Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think on these things.
Saints should Take Pleasure in Doing
- Proverbs 21:15 Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
Saints should Teach Others to Do
- Genesis 18:19 For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
Samuel
- 1 Samuel 12:4 “You have not cheated us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”
Solomon
- 1 Kings 3:16–27 At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. …
Specially Required in Rulers
- 2 Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,
- Ezekiel 45:9 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
The Wicked: Abhor
- Micah 3:9 Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
The Wicked: Afflict Those Who Act With
- Job 12:4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
- Amos 5:12 For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
The Wicked: Banish
- Isaiah 59:14 So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.
The Wicked: Call not For
- Isaiah 59:4 No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
The Wicked: Pass Over
- Luke 11:42 Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.
The Wicked: Scorn
- Proverbs 19:28 A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.
To be Done in Buying and Selling
- Leviticus 19:36 You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 25:15 You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
To be Done in Executing Judgment
- Deuteronomy 16:18 You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
- Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because …
To be Done: To Servants
- Colossians 4:1 Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
To be Done: To the Fatherless and Widows
- Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
To be Done: To the Poor
- Proverbs 29:14 A king who judges the poor with fairness— his throne will be established forever.
- Proverbs 31:9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.