God: Judge, and his Justice
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Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
Genesis 18:20, 21, 25
Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous, / I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.” / Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Exodus 34:7
maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
Numbers 16:22
But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
Deuteronomy 4:24
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
Deuteronomy 32:4, 35
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He. / Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
Joshua 24:19
But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.
Judges 9:56, 57
In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers. / And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.
Judges 11:27
I have not sinned against you, but you have done me wrong by waging war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”
1 Samuel 2:3, 10
Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed. / Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
1 Samuel 24:12, 15
May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD take vengeance on you, but my hand will never be against you. / May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”
2 Samuel 14:14
For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
2 Samuel 22:25–27
So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight. / To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless; / to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
1 Kings 8:32
then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
1 Chronicles 16:33
Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, for He is coming to judge the earth.
2 Chronicles 6:22, 23
When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple, / then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chronicles 19:7
And now, may the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.”
Nehemiah 9:33
You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.
Job 4:17
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Job 9:15, 28
For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy. / I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
Job 21:22
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
Job 23:7
Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
Job 31:13–15
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me, / what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account? / Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
Job 34:10–12, 17, 19, 23
Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly. / For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences. / Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
Job 35:14
How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
Job 36:3, 19
I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker. / Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
Job 37:23
The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
Psalm 7:8, 9, 11
The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity. / Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds. / God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.
Psalm 9:4, 7, 8
For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously. / But the LORD abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment. / He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.
Psalm 11:4, 5, 7
The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men. / The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence. / For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
Psalm 18:25, 26
To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless; / to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
Psalm 19:9
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.
Psalm 26:1, 2
Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering. / Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
Psalm 33:5
The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.
Psalm 35:24
Vindicate me by Your righteousness, O LORD my God, and do not let them gloat over me.
Psalm 43:1
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
Psalm 50:4, 6
He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people: / And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah
Psalm 51:4
Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
Psalm 58:11
Then men will say, “There is surely a reward for the righteous! There is surely a God who judges the earth!”
Psalm 62:12
and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
Psalm 67:4
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for You judge the peoples justly and lead the nations of the earth. Selah
Psalm 71:19
Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
Psalm 75:7
but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
Psalm 76:8, 9
From heaven You pronounced judgment, and the earth feared and was still / when God rose up to judge, to save all the lowly of the earth. Selah
Psalm 82:8
Arise, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are Your inheritance.
Psalm 85:10
Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
Psalm 89:14
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.
Psalm 90:8, 11
You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. / Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
Psalm 92:15
to proclaim, “The LORD is upright; He is my Rock, and in Him there is no unrighteousness.”
Psalm 94:1, 2, 10
O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth. / Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud. / He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?
Psalm 96:10, 13
Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity. / before the LORD, for He is coming—He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.
Psalm 97:2
Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.
Psalm 98:2, 3, 9
The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations. / He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. / before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.
Psalm 99:4, 8
The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob. / O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.
Psalm 103:6
The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
Psalm 111:7
The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are trustworthy.
Psalm 119:137
Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.
Psalm 129:4
The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
Psalm 135:14
For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.
Psalm 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Psalm 145:17
The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
Proverbs 11:31
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
Proverbs 16:2
All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
Proverbs 17:3
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Proverbs 21:2, 3
All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart. / To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Proverbs 24:12
If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?
Proverbs 29:13, 26
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both. / Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.
Ecclesiastes 3:15, 17
What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed. / I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
Isaiah 1:27
Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.
Isaiah 3:13, 14
The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people. / The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
Isaiah 10:17, 18
And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles. / The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
Isaiah 26:7
The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.
Isaiah 28:17, 21
I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place. / For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
Isaiah 30:18, 27, 30
Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him. / Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire. / And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
Isaiah 31:2
Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
Isaiah 33:22
For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
Isaiah 45:21
Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
Isaiah 61:8
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 10:10
But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
Jeremiah 11:20
O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
Jeremiah 20:12
O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
Jeremiah 32:19
the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Jeremiah 50:7
All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
Jeremiah 51:10
“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
Lamentations 1:18
The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
Ezekiel 14:23
They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
Ezekiel 18:25, 29, 30
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust? / Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust? / Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
Ezekiel 33:7–19
As for you, O son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word from My mouth and give them the warning from Me. / If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood. / But if you warn the wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from it, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
Daniel 7:9, 10
As I continued to watch, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze. / A river of fire was flowing, coming out from His presence. Thousands upon thousands attended Him, and myriads upon myriads stood before Him. The court was convened, and the books were opened.
Daniel 9:7, 14
To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You. / Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
Hosea 10:10
I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.
Amos 8:7
The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
Nahum 1:3, 6
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet. / Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
Zephaniah 3:5
The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
Malachi 3:5, 18
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts. / So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
Acts 10:34
Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
Acts 17:31
For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
Romans 1:32
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
Romans 2:2
And we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.
Romans 3:4–6, 26
Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.” / But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms. / Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
Romans 9:14
What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
Romans 11:22
Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
Ephesians 6:8, 9
because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free. / And masters, do the same for your slaves. Give up your use of threats, because you know that He who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.
Colossians 3:2
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.