Injustice

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Job 31:13 OT

  “If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

• Job 31:14 OT

  what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

• Deuteronomy 24:14 OT

  You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

• Jeremiah 22:13 OT

  “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

• Luke 16:10 NT

  He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

• Ecclesiastes 5:8 OT

  If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

• Lamentations 3:35 OT

  to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

• Lamentations 3:36 OT

  to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

• Proverbs 17:15 OT

  He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

• Proverbs 20:10 OT

  Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

• James 5:4 NT

  Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

• 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.”

• Deuteronomy 27:17 OT

  ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:19 OT

  ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Exodus 23:2 OT

  “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

• Proverbs 31:5 OT

  lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

• Jeremiah 6:13 OT

  “For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

• Ezekiel 22:12 OT

  In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Micah 2:2 OT

  They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

• Proverbs 29:27 OT

  A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

• Psalms 58:1 OT

  Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

• Psalms 58:2 OT

  No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

• Micah 3:8 OT

  But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

• Micah 3:9 OT

  Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.