Quotes about Justice
This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
- Deuteronomy 19:7
Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
- Deuteronomy 19:10
If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
- Deuteronomy 19:11
the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.
- Deuteronomy 19:12
You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
- Deuteronomy 19:13
A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
- Deuteronomy 19:15
If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
- Deuteronomy 19:16
both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.
- Deuteronomy 19:17
you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 19:19
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