Quotes About Justice

You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.

You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

“Tell the Israelites, ëAny Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.

And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,

If a man commits adultery with another manís wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.í”

“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.

If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.

You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.í”

Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.