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Bible verses about justice
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Justice is one of the most insistent themes in the Old Testament prophets, and it is usually specific: wages, weights, courts, the treatment of widows, orphans and foreigners.
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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?
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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.”
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.”
9“Thus has the LORD of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgement, 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.’
You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.
“‘You shall do no injustice in judgement. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favouritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbour in righteousness.
Behold, the wages of the labourers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
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