Quotes About Fairness

To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

A king who judges the poor with fairness—his throne will be established forever.

to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.

You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

ëYou also go into my vineyard,í he said, ëand I will pay you whatever is right.í

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ëCall the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.í

So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.

On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.

But he answered one of them, ëFriend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?

Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.

Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?í

“Collect no more than you are authorized,” he answered.

“Teacher,” they inquired, “we know that You speak and teach correctly. You show no partiality, but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.

Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”

“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”

I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.

For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.

Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.