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Bible verses about justice

The prophets’ call for justice and care for the poor, the widow and the stranger.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8Read in context →
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Amos 5:24Read in context →
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Isaiah 1:17Read in context →

Old Testament

You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 16:20Read in context →
9“Thus has the LORD of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. 10Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
Zechariah 7:9–10Read in context →

Psalms & Wisdom

For the LORD loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalm 37:28Read in context →
3“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. 4Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
Psalm 82:3–4Read in context →
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
Psalm 89:14Read in context →
8Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. 9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
Proverbs 31:8–9Read in context →

Gospels

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
Matthew 23:23Read in context →
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
Luke 4:18Read in context →

New Testament

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
James 1:27Read in context →

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