Bible on Justice

Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.