Injustice

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Bible verses about “Injustice”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Exodus 22:21Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
• Exodus 22:22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
• Exodus 23:1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
• Exodus 23:2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
• Exodus 23:3Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
• Exodus 23:6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
• Exodus 23:7Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
• Leviticus 19:15Ye 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.
• Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
• Leviticus 19:36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
• Deuteronomy 16:19Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
• Deuteronomy 16:20That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
• Deuteronomy 24:17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
• Deuteronomy 24:18But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
• Deuteronomy 27:19Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Job 16:16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
• Job 16:17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
• Job 31:13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
• Job 31:14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
• Job 31:15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
• Psalms 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Psalms 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
• Psalms 82:2How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
• Proverbs 11:7When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
• Proverbs 17:15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.
• Proverbs 28:8He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
• Proverbs 29:27An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
• Proverbs 31:4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
• Proverbs 31:5Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
• Ecclesiastes 3:16And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
• Ecclesiastes 5:8If 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.
• Isaiah 26:10Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
• Jeremiah 22:3Thus 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.
• Jeremiah 22:4For 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.
• Jeremiah 22:5But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.
• Lamentations 3:34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
• Lamentations 3:35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
• Lamentations 3:36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
• Amos 5:11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
• Amos 5:12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.