54 Bible Verses on Justice

Justness is a key part of God’s character. Throughout the Bible, justice is associated with righteousness and God’s law. God even made special provisions in His law to see to it that those in the Israelite society and the church community who were often overlooked were treated with care and justice. All of us experience the benefits of God’s justness through Jesus who died on the cross in our place and took the punishment we deserved for our sins; because of this God can now justly forgive us when we repent so that we can have relationship with Him (1 John 1:9).

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What Does the Bible Say About Justice?

Old Testament

Exodus 23:2
You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

Exodus 23:6
“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.”

Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 16:19–20
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 24:17
“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge,”

Deuteronomy 27:19
“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”

Deuteronomy 32:4
“The Rock, his work is perfect,
for all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
just and upright is he.”

2 Samuel 8:15
So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.

Ezra 9:15
O LORD, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this.”

Job 37:23
The Almighty—we cannot find him;
he is great in power;
justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

Psalm 9:7–8
But the LORD sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
and he judges the world with righteousness;
he judges the peoples with uprightness.

Psalm 33:5
He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.

Psalm 37:6
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your justice as the noonday.

Psalm 37:28
For the LORD loves justice;
he will not forsake his saints.
They are preserved forever,
but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalm 37:30–31
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,
and his tongue speaks justice.
The law of his God is in his heart;
his steps do not slip.

Psalm 89:14
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

Psalm 94:15
for justice will return to the righteous,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.

Psalm 103:6
The LORD works righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed.

Psalm 106:3
Blessed are they who observe justice,
who do righteousness at all times!

Psalm 111:7
The works of his hands are faithful and just;
all his precepts are trustworthy;

Psalm 119:149
Hear my voice according to your steadfast love;
O LORD, according to your justice give me life.

Psalm 140:12
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and will execute justice for the needy.

Proverbs 17:23
The wicked accepts a bribe in secret
to pervert the ways of justice.

Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice
is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Proverbs 21:15
When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous
but terror to evildoers.

Proverbs 28:5
Evil men do not understand justice,
but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.

Ecclesiastes 3:16
Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

Isaiah 1:17
learn to do good;
seek justice,
correct oppression;
bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.

Isaiah 1:27
Zion shall be redeemed by justice,
and those in her who repent, by righteousness.

Isaiah 5:16
But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice,
and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.

Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and of peace
there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
to establish it and to uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
from this time forth and forevermore.
The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you,
and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you.
For the LORD is a God of justice;
blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 42:1–4
Behold my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen, in whom my soul delights;
I have put my Spirit upon him;
he will bring forth justice to the nations.
He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice,
or make it heard in the street;
a bruised reed he will not break,
and a faintly burning wick he will not quench;
he will faithfully bring forth justice.
He will not grow faint or be discouraged
till he has established justice in the earth;
and the coastlands wait for his law.

Isaiah 61:8
For I the LORD love justice;
I hate robbery and wrong;
I will faithfully give them their recompense,
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Jeremiah 9:24
but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.”

Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,
so is he who gets riches but not by justice;
in the midst of his days they will leave him,
and at his end he will be a fool.

Jeremiah 22:3
Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 33:14–16
Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right, if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.

Amos 5:24
But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

New Testament

Matthew 5:22
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Matthew 12:18
“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen,
my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased.
I will put my Spirit upon him,
and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.

Luke 11:42
“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Luke 18:7–8
And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Revelation 16:5
And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say,
“Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was,
for you brought these judgments.”