Quotes about Equity
Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.
- Proverbs 17:15
Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.
- Proverbs 18:5
Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 21:15
Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
- Proverbs 24:29
By justice a king brings stability to the land, but a man who exacts tribute demolishes it.
- Proverbs 29:4
There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 8:14
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
- Isaiah 10:1
but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
- Isaiah 11:4
Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice.
- Isaiah 32:1
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
- Jeremiah 7:5
For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.
- Jeremiah 49:12
to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
- Lamentations 3:36