justice
What does the Bible say about justice? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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8I will reveal to you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God.
17Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.
24And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.
15It is gladness for the just to do judgment; and it is dread for those who work iniquity.
18Therefore, the Lord waits, so that he may take pity on you. And therefore, he will be exalted for sparing you. For the Lord is the God of judgment. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
5He loves mercy and judgment. The earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.
8For I am the Lord, who loves judgment and who holds hatred for robbery within a burnt offering. And I will turn their work into truth, and I will forge a perpetual covenant with them.
3Blessed are those who keep judgment and who do justice at all times.
17And I said in my heart: “God will judge the just and the impious, and then the time for each matter shall be.”
3To do mercy and judgment is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifices.
9Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge with true judgment, and act with mercy and compassion, each and every one with his brother.