Bible Verses about โinjusticeโ
The Bible contains 24 verses about injustice across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โDon't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.โ
โHe has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?โ
โLearn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."โ
โOpen your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."โ
โOpen your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.โ
โHe who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.โ
โ"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.โ
โ"Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.โ
โ"How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.โ
โThus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.โ
โVindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.โ
โIf you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.โ
โA dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.โ
โwho gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;โ
โHe frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.โ
โFor if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.โ
โBut if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.โ
โ"But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,โ
โwho does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;โ
โso that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.โ
โHe takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.โ
โThey meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.โ
โBut he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.โ
โSo the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.โ
