Bible Verses about “social injustice”

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”

“¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

“¶ A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

“Thou shalt not kill.”

“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?”

“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;”

“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:”

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

“Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”

“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”

“Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”

“For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”

“Thou shalt not steal.”

“But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:”

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's.”

“Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:”

“And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”

“I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”

“And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.”

“¶ And God spake all these words, saying,”

“Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.”

“Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.”

“An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.”

“¶ And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw [it], they removed, and stood afar off.”

“And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.”

“And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.”

“And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God [was].”

“¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.”

“Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”

“Ye 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.”

“And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].”

“Thus 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.”

“They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.”