The Justice of God
28 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
18 sections
- Acknowledge
- Declared to be without Respect of Persons
- Declared to Be: Impartial
- Declared to Be: Incomparable
- Declared to Be: Incorruptible
- Declared to Be: Plenteous
- Declared to Be: The Habitation of his Throne
- Declared to Be: Undeviating
- Declared to Be: Unfailing
- Denied by the Ungodly
- Exhibited in all his Ways
- Exhibited in Forgiving Sins
- Exhibited in His Government
- Exhibited in His Judgments
- Exhibited in Redemption
- Exhibited in The Final Judgment
- Magnify
- Not to be Sinned Against
Acknowledge
- Psalm 51:4 Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
- Romans 3:4 Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
Declared to be without Respect of Persons
- Romans 2:11 For God does not show favoritism.
- Colossians 3:25 Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.
- 1 Peter 1:17 Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
Declared to Be: Impartial
- 2 Chronicles 19:7 And now, may the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.”
- Jeremiah 32:19 the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Declared to Be: Incomparable
- Job 4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Declared to Be: Incorruptible
- Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
- 2 Chronicles 19:7 And now, may the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.”
Declared to Be: Plenteous
- Job 37:23 The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
Declared to Be: The Habitation of his Throne
- Psalm 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.
Declared to Be: Undeviating
Declared to Be: Unfailing
- Zephaniah 3:5 The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
Denied by the Ungodly
- Ezekiel 33:17 Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
- Ezekiel 33:20 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”
Exhibited in all his Ways
- Ezekiel 18:25 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
- Ezekiel 18:29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Exhibited in Forgiving Sins
- 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Exhibited in His Government
- Psalm 9:4 For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
- Jeremiah 9:24 But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth — for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
Exhibited in His Judgments
- Genesis 18:25 Far be it from You to do such a thing — to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
- Revelation 19:2 For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”
Exhibited in Redemption
- Romans 3:26 He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
Exhibited in The Final Judgment
- Acts 17:31 For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
Magnify
- 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.
- Psalm 99:3–4 Let them praise Your great and awesome name — He is holy! …
Not to be Sinned Against
- Jeremiah 50:7 All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
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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.