God Calls Christians To Respond To Injustice

Psalm 34:14 

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. 

Psalm 72:1-2,4

Endow the king with your justice, O God, the royal son with your righteousness.  He will judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice.  He will defend the afflicted among your people and save the children of the needy; he will crush the oppressor. 

Psalm 82:3-4

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.  Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Proverbs 24:11

Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.

Proverbs 31:8-9

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.  Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage [rescue] the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow. 

Isaiah 56:1

This is what the LORD says: Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.       

Isaiah 58:3b,6-7,9b-10

“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.  Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?  Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter- when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?  “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.” 

Jeremiah 7:5-8

If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever.  But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. 

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David, this is what the LORD says: 'Administer justice every morning; rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed, or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done- burn with no one to quench it. 

Jeremiah 22:3

This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right.  Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed.  Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place. 

Hosea 12:6

But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always. 

Micah 6:8

He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. 

Zechariah 7:8-10

And the word of the LORD came again to Zechariah: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts do not think evil of each other.’ 

Zechariah 8:16-17

These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely.  I hate all this, declares the LORD. 

Matthew 7:12

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. 

Matthew 25:35-40

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.  "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?  When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?  When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'  "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

Luke 6:36

Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate. 

Romans 12:9,15

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good…mourn with those who mourn. 

2 Corinthians 7:11

See what this godly sorrow has produced in you...what readiness to see justice done. 

Colossians 3:12

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

Hebrews 13:3

Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. 

James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. 

James 3:18

Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness. 

1 John 3:16-18

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.  And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.  If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.