Bible Verses About Justice
Scripture on doing right by others — defending the weak, and God who loves justice.
The God of the Bible loves justice and calls his people to it — to defend the weak, judge fairly, and let mercy and righteousness run together. These verses gather Scripture's call to do right by others in a world that often does not.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
What doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy.
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed.
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Open thy mouth for the dumb... plead the cause of the poor and needy.
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions.
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow.
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
The LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Justice is not a modern add-on to faith but its ancient heartbeat. Use your voice for those without one, do right in the small dealings, and let mercy and righteousness flow together.
