Quotes about Fairness
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
- Proverbs 31:9
When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great evil.
- Ecclesiastes 2:21
I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11
How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
- Song of Solomon 7:6
who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
- Isaiah 5:23
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
- Isaiah 10:1
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
- Isaiah 10:2
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 deny a man justice before the Most High,
- Lamentations 3:35
to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
- Lamentations 3:36