Bible Verses about βinjusticeβ
The Bible contains 24 verses about injustice across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βAnd be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.β
βHe 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?β
βLearn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.β
βOpen thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.β
βOpen thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.β
βΒΆ He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both [are] abomination to the LORD.β
βYe shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: [but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.β
βKeep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.β
βHow long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.β
βThus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.β
βΒΆ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.β
βIf thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they.β
βΒΆ An unjust man [is] an abomination to the just: and [he that is] upright in the way [is] abomination to the wicked.β
βWho giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:β
βHe disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.β
βFor if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.β
βBut if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.β
βI would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:β
βWhich doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:β
βTo set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.β
βHe taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.β
βThey meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.β
βBut he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.β
βSo the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.β
