By Elaine
Righteousness and Justice Scriptures
Psalm 89:14 (NIV)
“Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
love and faithfulness go before you.”
Matthew 22:36-40 (NIV)
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest
commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Luke 11:42 (NIV)
"Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and
all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of
God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former
undone."
Micah 6:8 (NIV)
"He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God."
1 John 4:19-21 (NIV)
"We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates
his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he
has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this
command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother."
Psalm 89:14 (NIV)
"Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
love and faithfulness go before you."
John 15:5-8 (NIV)
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him,
he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does
not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such
branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me
and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.
This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves
to be my disciples."
Isaiah 55:9 (NIV)
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts."
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (NIV)
"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit
lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for
God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple."
Matthew 5:17-18 (NIV)
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have
not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until
heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of
a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is
accomplished."
1 John 2:7a (NIV)
"Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you
have had since the beginning..."
Ephesians 2:19-22 (NIV)
"Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens
with God's people and members of God's household, built on the foundation of
the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief
cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to
become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built
together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit."
Deut 16:19-20 (NIV)
"Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a
bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land
the LORD your God is giving you."
1 Kings 10:9 (NIV)
"Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on
the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD's eternal love for Israel, he has
made you king, to maintain justice and righteousness."
Job 8:3 (NIV)
"Does God pervert justice?
Does the Almighty pervert what is right?"
Matthew 12:18-21
"Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear his voice in the streets.
A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff
out,
till he leads justice to victory. In his name the nations will put their
hope."
Luke 18:7-8 (NIV)
"And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to
him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see
that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will
he find faith on the earth?"
1 Corinthians 10:16-17 (NIV)
"Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in
the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in
the body of Christ? Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one
body, for we all partake of the one loaf."
1 Corinthians 12:12-27 (NIV)
12 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all
its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. 13 For we were
all baptized by one Spirit into one body-whether Jews or Greeks, slave or
free-and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15 If the foot
should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would
not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 16 And if the ear should
say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not
for that reason cease to be part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an
eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear,
where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has arranged the parts
in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they
were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many
parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot
say to the feet, "I don't need you!" 22 On the contrary, those parts of the
body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we
think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are
unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable
parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the
body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that
there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have
equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers
with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
Romans 12:3-5 (NIV)
"For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of
yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober
judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Just as
each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have
the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each
member belongs to all the others."
John 13:34-35 (NIV)
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you
must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples,
if you love one another."
1 John 2:10-11 (NIV)
"Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him
to make him stumble. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and
walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because
the darkness has blinded him."
1 John 3:10-15 (NIV)
"This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the
devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor
is anyone who does not love his brother.
This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one
another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his
brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and
his brother's were righteous. Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world
hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love
our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates
his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in
him."
Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV)
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things
there is no law."
Ephesians 4:11-13 (NIV)
"It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be
evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people
for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we
all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and
become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ."
Ephesians 5:25-28 (NIV)
"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself
up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through
the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain
or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless."
Matthew 12:25 (NIV)
"Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, "Every kingdom divided against
itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself
will not stand."
Matthew 3:7-10 (NIV)
"But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was
baptizing, he said to them: "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee
from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not
think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' I tell you
that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The ax is
already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce
good fruit will be cut down
and thrown into the fire."
1 Peter 4:17 (NIV)
"For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it
begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the
gospel of God?