TOPICAL BIBLE
Injustice
45 references in this topic.
Exodus 22:21‘And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, nor crush him, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.Exodus 22:22‘Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;Exodus 23:1‘Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.Exodus 23:2Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause others to turn aside;Exodus 23:3and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.Exodus 23:6‘Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;Exodus 23:7from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.Leviticus 19:15‘Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.Leviticus 19:35‘Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;Leviticus 19:36righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;Deuteronomy 16:19Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.Deuteronomy 16:20Righteousness—righteousness thou dost pursue, so that thou livest, and hast possessed the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.Deuteronomy 24:17‘Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;Deuteronomy 24:18and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee from thence; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.Deuteronomy 27:19Cursed is he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow,—and all the people have said, Amen.Job 16:16My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.Job 16:17Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.Job 31:13If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,Job 31:14Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?Job 31:15Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.Psalm 12:5Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety him who doth breathe for it.Psalm 43:1Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,Psalm 82:2Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.Proverbs 11:7In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.Proverbs 17:15Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah.Proverbs 28:8Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.Proverbs 29:27An abomination to the righteous is the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked is the upright in the way!Proverbs 31:4Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.Proverbs 31:5Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.Ecclesiastes 3:16And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment—there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness—there is the wicked.Ecclesiastes 5:8If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.Isaiah 26:10The wicked findeth favour, He hath not learned righteousness, In a land of straightforwardness he dealeth perversely, And seeth not the excellency of Jehovah.Jeremiah 22:3Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.Jeremiah 22:4For, if ye certainly do this thing, Then come in by the gates of this house Have kings sitting for David on his throne, Riding on chariot, and on horses, He, and his servants, and his people.Jeremiah 22:5And if ye do not hear these words, By myself I have sworn—an affirmation of Jehovah, That this house is for a desolation.Lamentations 3:34To bruise under one’s feet any bound ones of earth,Lamentations 3:35To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High,Lamentations 3:36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord hath not approved.Amos 5:11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.Amos 5:12For I have known—many are your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.Zephaniah 3:5Jehovah is righteous in her midst, He doth not do perverseness, Morning by morning His judgment he giveth to the light, It hath not been lacking, And the perverse doth not know shame.Luke 3:14And questioning him also were those warring, saying, ‘And we, what shall we do?’ and he said unto them, ‘Do violence to no one, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.’Luke 16:10He who is faithful in the least, is also faithful in much; and he who in the least is unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;1 Thessalonians 4:7for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;Revelation 22:11he who is unrighteous—let him be unrighteous still, and he who is filthy—let him be filthy still, and he who is righteous—let him be declared righteous still, and he who is sanctified—let him be sanctified still:
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