What Does the Bible Say About Basic Human Rights?

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

1 Samuel 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company. And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers. And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; ...

Exodus 23:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Revelation 21:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

John 8:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]]

Luke 15:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Matthew 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’

Zechariah 8:4-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

Jeremiah 1:4-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

18 Bible Verses about Basic Human Rights

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 23:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 21:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 15:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Zechariah 8:4-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Jeremiah 1:4-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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18 Bible Verses about Basic Human Rights

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Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 23:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 21:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 15:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Zechariah 8:4-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Jeremiah 1:4-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote