Justice & Fairness: Living Justly According to God’s Word

1 CORINTHIANS 6:1-8

1 Corinthians 6:1: Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
1 Corinthians 6:2: Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1 Corinthians 6:3: Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
1 Corinthians 6:4: If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
1 Corinthians 6:5: I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
1 Corinthians 6:6: But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
1 Corinthians 6:7: Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded?
1 Corinthians 6:8: Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.
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MICAH 4:3

# And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ...

AMOS 5:24

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. ...

PROVERBS 28:5

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all [things]. ...

EZEKIEL 18:5-9

Ezekiel 18:5: # But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
Ezekiel 18:6: [And] hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
Ezekiel 18:7: And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
Ezekiel 18:8: He [that] hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, [that] hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
Ezekiel 18:9: Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he [is] just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
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HOSEA 12:6

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. ...

PROVERBS 22:22-23

Proverbs 22:22: Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Proverbs 22:23: For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
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PROVERBS 24:11-12

Proverbs 24:11: If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn unto death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;
Proverbs 24:12: If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider [it]? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth [not] he know [it]? and shall [not] he render to [every] man according to his works?
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PSALMS 146:7-9

Psalms 146:7: Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
Psalms 146:8: The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
Psalms 146:9: The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
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EXODUS 23:1-3

Exodus 23:1: Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Exodus 23:2: # Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:
Exodus 23:3: # Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
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