Top 30 Bible Verses about Standing Up for What’s Right

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the rights of the afflicted and the destitute.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.

Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

You shall not follow a crowd to do evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice.

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

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

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?

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.”

For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain.

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth, to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the LORD does not approve.

Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works.

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anger and hope.