Quotes About Justice

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?

Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.

or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.

For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.

When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.

He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery—just as I have received authority from My Father.

And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.

And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”

Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.

and they sang the song of Godís servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”

And I heard the altar reply: “Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are Your judgments.”

For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.