Social Justice

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

“‘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.

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

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 →

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. — read the full passage →

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; — read the full passage →

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?

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. — read the full passage →

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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

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.

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.

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice; — read the full passage →

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

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Yet you say, Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. — read the full passage →

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

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

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

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.

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

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. — read the full passage →

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

Yet you say, Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

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

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

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

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.”

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? — read the full passage →

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, — read the full passage →

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? — read the full passage →

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — 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.

He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous”; peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him— — read the full passage →

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. — read the full passage →

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. — read the full passage →

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? — read the full passage →

Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

“For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — 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,

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

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

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be! — read the full passage →

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me,” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. — read the full passage →

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, — read the full passage →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

“Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples. — read the full passage →

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

“For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. — 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 →

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

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

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →

“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. — read the full passage →

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

and said to the judges, “Consider what you do: for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment. — read the full passage →

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’