What does the Bible say about justice?

Key Bible verses about justice

1. Deuteronomy 32:4

   The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

2. Psalm 89:14

   Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

3. Psalm 9:7-8

   But the LORD reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment. He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

4. Micah 6:8

   He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

5. Amos 5:24

   But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

6. Isaiah 1:17

   Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

7. Leviticus 19:15

   “‘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.

8. Proverbs 21:15

   It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

9. Proverbs 31:8-9

   Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

10. Zechariah 7:9-10

    “Thus has the LORD of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

11. Romans 12:19

    Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

12. Romans 3:25-26

    whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

Scripture: World English Bible (public domain). Short quotations in the introduction are from the ESV. Read each passage in its chapter for the full context.