Quotes about Fairness
Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
- Ezekiel 18:5
He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- Ezekiel 18:7
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
- Ezekiel 18:8
He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- Ezekiel 18:16
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
- Ezekiel 18:25
Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
- Ezekiel 18:29
Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
- Ezekiel 33:17
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”
- Ezekiel 33:20
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
- Ezekiel 45:10
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
- Amos 5:11
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Amos 8:4
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
- Zechariah 7:9