Bible verses about Justice
Verses about God's justice and the call to do what is right and to defend the weak.
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?
Micah 6:8Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
Isaiah 1:17Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
Proverbs 31:8Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
Psalms 10:18Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 16:20But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5:24Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.
Psalms 89:14For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
Isaiah 61:8To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:3Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 21:15This 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 22:3“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
Zechariah 7:9Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
Psalms 106:3Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
Matthew 23:23Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 12:19The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.
Psalms 33:5Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
Isaiah 30:18The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
Proverbs 29:7Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
Proverbs 24:11