TOPICAL BIBLE
Justice
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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.Exodus 23:8Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.Leviticus 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.Leviticus 19:14You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.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.Deuteronomy 16:18You 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 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 25:1If 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.Deuteronomy 25:2If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.Deuteronomy 25:3He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.Deuteronomy 25:4Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.Ezra 7:26If 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 72:1Of Solomon. Endow the king with Your justice, O God, and the son of the king with Your righteousness.Psalm 72:2May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.Psalm 82:2“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? SelahPsalm 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.Psalm 82:4Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.Proverbs 17:15Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.Proverbs 17:26It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.Proverbs 18:5Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.Proverbs 18:17The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.Proverbs 20:8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.Proverbs 22:27If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?Proverbs 24:23These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.Proverbs 28:21To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.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 3:17I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”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.Ecclesiastes 7:7Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.Isaiah 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”Isaiah 56:1This 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 59:14So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.Isaiah 59:15Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.Jeremiah 22:1This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,Jeremiah 22:2saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.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.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 5:7There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.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.Micah 7:3Both 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 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.Zechariah 8:16These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,Matthew 5:23So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,Matthew 12:7If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.John 7:24Stop 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 13:6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
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