Injustice
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Injustice’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 98 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Exodus 22:21 OT
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 22:22 OT
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
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“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice. You shall not favor…
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Exodus 23:6 OT
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
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Exodus 23:7 OT
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
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“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
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“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
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You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
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You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
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but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
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‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
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Job 16:16 OT
My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
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Job 16:17 OT
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
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Job 31:13-15 OT
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me, what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him? Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one…
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Psalms 12:5 OT
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
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Psalms 43:1 OT
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
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Psalms 82:2 OT
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?”
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When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.
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He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
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He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
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A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
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It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’