100 Bible Verses about Justice And Equality Of All People

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 119 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 107 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Romans 2:11 ESV / 90 helpful votes

For God shows no partiality.

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 79 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Mark 12:31 ESV / 73 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 70 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Leviticus 19:15 ESV / 69 helpful votes

“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Leviticus 19:33-34 ESV / 67 helpful votes

“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Psalm 33:5 ESV / 65 helpful votes

He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.

Isaiah 61:8 ESV / 64 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 140:12 ESV / 64 helpful votes

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.

Colossians 3:25 ESV / 62 helpful votes

For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

James 1:27 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Acts 10:34 ESV / 60 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,

John 13:16 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

Psalm 82:3 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

Deuteronomy 32:4 ESV / 57 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 56 helpful votes

A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

Psalm 103:6 ESV / 56 helpful votes

The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.

Psalm 89:14 ESV / 56 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:23 ESV / 54 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Deuteronomy 10:18 ESV / 54 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 1:17 ESV / 53 helpful votes

And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,

Romans 10:12 ESV / 53 helpful votes

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

Proverbs 22:2 ESV / 53 helpful votes

The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all.

Proverbs 21:15 ESV / 53 helpful votes

When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

Amos 5:24 ESV / 52 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 3:17 ESV / 52 helpful votes

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.

Proverbs 28:5 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Psalm 106:3 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!

Luke 11:42 ESV / 50 helpful votes

“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.

Zechariah 7:9 ESV / 50 helpful votes

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

1 John 2:2 ESV / 49 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

John 13:34 ESV / 48 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 3:16 ESV / 48 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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.

Deuteronomy 16:20 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Proverbs 18:5 ESV / 47 helpful votes

It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.

Proverbs 31:9 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 45 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Jeremiah 23:5 ESV / 45 helpful votes

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

Isaiah 56:1 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my righteousness be revealed.

Isaiah 45:21 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.

Ecclesiastes 5:8 ESV / 45 helpful votes

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Psalm 98:9 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

Job 8:3 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 44 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

James 2:8-9 ESV / 43 helpful votes

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 43 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Acts 17:26 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Matthew 12:18 ESV / 43 helpful votes

“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.

Deuteronomy 27:19 ESV / 43 helpful votes

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

James 2:1-4 ESV / 42 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

Hosea 12:6 ESV / 42 helpful votes

“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”

Proverbs 31:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him:

Revelation 7:9 ESV / 41 helpful votes

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Hebrews 10:30 ESV / 41 helpful votes

For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

Romans 12:19 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 41 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Deuteronomy 10:17 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 39 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 39 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 39 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.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Galatians 3:26-29 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

Romans 13:4 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Luke 6:37 ESV / 38 helpful votes

“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;

Luke 1:37 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Amos 5:15 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Job 34:12 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.

Mark 12:25-37 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.” And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ...

Isaiah 5:23 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

Ephesians 5:21-33 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, ...

Acts 2:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

Job 37:23 ESV / 36 helpful votes

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

Job 12:22 ESV / 36 helpful votes

He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 35 helpful votes

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Acts 1:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Exodus 23:6 ESV / 33 helpful votes

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.

Amos 5:7 ESV / 32 helpful votes

O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Proverbs 25:26 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Habakkuk 1:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes

So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.

Psalm 50:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes

The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Isaiah 51:4-5 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples. My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.

Exodus 23:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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,

Psalm 58:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.”

Deuteronomy 24:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes

“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,

Luke 10:30-37 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. ...

Proverbs 21:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Galatians 3:26 ESV / 19 helpful votes

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

Romans 2:9 ESV / 19 helpful votes

There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,

Romans 2:6 ESV / 19 helpful votes

He will render to each one according to his works:

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