Fairness

“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

For there is no partiality with God.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous. — read the full passage →

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; — read the full passage →

“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. — read the full passage →

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” — read the full passage →

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; — read the full passage →

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well. — read the full passage →

but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

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

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice;

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

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

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there. — read the full passage →

Who doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. — read the full passage →

neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; — read the full passage →

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. — read the full passage →

He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

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

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

he who has not lent on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

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

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah, saying, — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised? — read the full passage →

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

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

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Thus says Yahweh, “Keep justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

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