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Romans 12:19
Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for His wrath. For it is written: Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay, says the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 19 6
Then he said to the judges,“ Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the matter of judgment.
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Romans 13:6
And for this reason you pay taxes, since the authorities are God’s public servants, continually attending to these tasks.
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Proverbs 24:23-24
These sayings also belong to the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgment.Whoever says to the guilty,“ You are innocent”— people will curse him, and tribes will denounce him;
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Ezekiel 25:14
I will take My vengeance on Edom through My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and wrath. So they will know My vengeance.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
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Numbers 35:19-27
The avenger of blood himself is to kill the murderer; when he finds him, he is to kill him.Likewise, if anyone in hatred pushes a person or throws an object at him with malicious intent and he dies,or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood is to kill the murderer when he finds him.“ But if anyone suddenly pushes a person without hostility or throws any object at him without malicious intentor without looking drops a stone that could kill a person and he dies, but he was not his enemy and wasn’t trying to harm him,the assembly is to judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.“ If the one who kills someone ever goes outside the border of the city of refuge he fled to,and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills him, the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,
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Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do what is good. Seek justice. Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow’s cause.
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1 Kings 10 9
May Yahweh your God be praised! He delighted in you and put you on the throne of Israel, because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel. He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
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Joshua 20:9
These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die at the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the assembly.
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Proverbs 31:8-9
Speak up for those who have no voice, for the justice of all who are dispossessed.Speak up, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the oppressed and needy.
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Proverbs 16:14
A king’s fury is a messenger of death, but a wise man appeases it.
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Proverbs 20:26
A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
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1 Thessalonians 4 6
This means one must not transgress against and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you.
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Proverbs 20:2
A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion; anyone who provokes him endangers himself.
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Micah 3:1-4
Then I said,“ Now listen, leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Aren’t you supposed to know what is just?You hate good and love evil. You tear off people’s skin and strip their flesh from their bones.You eat the flesh of my people after you strip their skin from them and break their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”Then they will cry out to the Lord, but He will not answer them. He will hide His face from them at that time because of the crimes they have committed.
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Psalms 82:2-4
“ How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? SelahProvide justice for the needy and the fatherless; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.Rescue the poor and needy; save them from the power of the wicked.”
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Micah 3:9
Listen to this, leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert everything that is right,
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Ezekiel 22:27
“ Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.
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Proverbs 20:8
A king sitting on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
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Jeremiah 5:28
They have become fat and sleek. They have also excelled in evil matters. They have not taken up cases, such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper, and they have not defended the rights of the needy.
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Ecclesiastes 8:2-5
Keep the king’s command because of your oath made before God.Do not be in a hurry; leave his presence, and don’t persist in a bad cause, since he will do whatever he wants.For the king’s word is authoritative, and who can say to him,“ What are you doing?”The one who keeps a command will not experience anything harmful, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.
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Joshua 20:5
And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not hand the one who committed manslaughter over to him, for he killed his neighbor accidentally and did not hate him beforehand.
