Quotes about Justice
Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.
— Deuteronomy 19:20
You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
— Deuteronomy 19:21
If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
— Deuteronomy 21:1
your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
— Deuteronomy 21:2
Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,
— Deuteronomy 21:3
and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
— Deuteronomy 21:7
Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.
— Deuteronomy 21:8
So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
— Deuteronomy 21:9
And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
— Deuteronomy 21:14
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
— Deuteronomy 21:19
Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
— Deuteronomy 21:21
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
— Deuteronomy 21:22