Scriptures about justice, judgment, and protecting the weak.
14 Scriptures · Father’s Blessing Bible
Micah 6:8
O man, it has been told you what is good and what the Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love deeds of mercy, and to walk humbly before your God.
Isaiah 1:17
learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the fatherless, and plead for the widow.
Deuteronomy 16:20
seek righteousness, seek righteousness, so that you may live and take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Amos 5:24
Let justice flow like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream!
Proverbs 21:3
To practice righteousness and justice is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifice.
Psalm 82:3–4
3 Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the afflicted and the needy; 4 rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
Psalm 89:14
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy and truth go before Your face.
Proverbs 31:8–9
8 Open your mouth for the speechless and for the defense of all the fatherless. 9 Open your mouth for justice and for the cause of the poor and needy.
Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him!
Luke 11:42
But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and pass by justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
Proverbs 17:15
Acquitting the wicked and condemning the righteous—both are an abomination before the Lord.
Isaiah 61:8
For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and injustice, and I will faithfully reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them;
Zechariah 7:9–10
9 This is what the Lord of hosts said: “Administer true justice and show mercy and compassion to one another. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor; do not plot evil against one another in your hearts.”
Psalm 106:3
Blessed are those who uphold justice and practice righteousness at all times!
