Quotes about Justice

If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’

You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.

and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.

And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”

So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

So Moses brought their case before the LORD,

and the LORD answered him,

“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.

“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”

But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.