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Injustice

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Exodus 22:21You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.Exodus 22:22You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.Exodus 23:1“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.Exodus 23:2You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.Exodus 23:3And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.Exodus 23:6You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.Exodus 23:7Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.Leviticus 19:15You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.Leviticus 19:35You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.Leviticus 19:36You 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 16:19Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.Deuteronomy 16:20Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.Deuteronomy 24:18Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.Deuteronomy 27:19‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’Job 16:16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.Job 31:13If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,Job 31:14what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?Job 31:15Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?Psalm 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”Psalm 43:1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.Psalm 82:2“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Proverbs 11:7When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.Proverbs 17:15Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.Proverbs 29:27An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.Proverbs 31:4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,Proverbs 31:5lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.Ecclesiastes 3:16Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.Ecclesiastes 5:8If 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.Isaiah 26:10Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.Jeremiah 22:3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.Jeremiah 22:4For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.Jeremiah 22:5But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”Lamentations 3:34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,Lamentations 3:35to deny a man justice before the Most High,Lamentations 3:36to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.Amos 5:11Therefore, 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.Amos 5:12For 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.Zephaniah 3:5The 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.Luke 3:14Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”Luke 16:10Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.1 Thessalonians 4:7For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.Revelation 22:11Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”