Quotes About Justice

Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.

Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.

A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.

To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.

Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.

The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.

A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.

He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.

Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.

Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.

Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.

For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;