Justice

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Genesis 18:19 OT

  For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of…

• Isaiah 33:15 OT

  He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

• Isaiah 33:16 OT

  he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

• Jeremiah 7:5 OT

  For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

• Jeremiah 7:7 OT

  then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.

• Proverbs 19:28 OT

  A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

• 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.

• Isaiah 59:4 OT

  No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

• Isaiah 59:14 OT

  Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

• Luke 11:42 NT

  But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

• Job 12:4 OT

  I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

• Amos 5:12 OT

  For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

• Numbers 16:15 OT

  Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”

• 1 Samuel 12:4 OT

  They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”

• 2 Samuel 8:15 OT

  David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

• 1 Kings 3:16-27 OT

  Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him. The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house. The third day after I delivered, this woman…

• Luke 23:50 NT

  Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man

• Luke 23:51 NT

  (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:

• 1 Thessalonians 2:10 NT

  You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.