Justice of God

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The moral righteousness of God is revealed in his laws and expressed in his judicial acts. God’s commands and judgments meet perfect standards of justice, and his apportioning of punishments and rewards is also perfectly just. God’s justice is impartial. Special praise is his for vindicating the penitent and the needy who have no human champions. Ultimately, all God’s ways will be seen as just and equitable.

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God’s justice declared

God the Father

Ps 92:15; 1 Pe 1:17
See also Ge 18:25; Job 36:3; Ps 11:7; Ps 25:8; Ps 33:5; Ps 51:4; Is 61:8; Je 9:24; Zep 3:5; Re 15:3

God the Son

1 John 2:1 NASB95
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
See also Ps 45:6; Heb 1:8–9; Ps 72:1–4

The righteousness of the coming Messiah:

Is 9:7; Is 11:3–5; Is 42:1; Is 42:3; Mal 3:1–3
Ac 3:14; 1 Co 1:30; Re 19:11

God the Spirit

John 16:8–11 NASB95
“And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
See also Ac 5:3; Ac 5:9; Eph 4:1; Eph 4:28; Eph 4:30

God’s justice described

As impartial

1 Peter 1:17 NASB95
If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;
See also Dt 10:17; 2 Ch 19:7; Job 34:19; Da 5:27; Ac 10:34; Ro 2:5; Ro 2:11; Ga 2:6; Eph 6:9; Col 3:25

As inescapable

Romans 2:3 NASB95
But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?
See also Ps 68:21–23; Je 11:11; Je 16:16–18; Je 51:53; La 2:22; Am 9:1–4; Ob 4; Heb 2:2–3

As infallible

Hebrews 4:13 NASB95
And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
See also 1 Sa 2:3; 1 Ch 28:9; Pr 16:2; Pr 21:2; Pr 24:12; Lk 16:15; Ro 2:2; Ro 2:16

God’s justice desired

By the oppressed

Psalm 9:19 NASB95
Arise, O Lord, do not let man prevail; Let the nations be judged before You.
See also Jdg 3:9; Ps 7:6; Ps 10:12–14

By those who are misrepresented

Psalm 26:1 NASB95
Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, And I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
See also 1 Sa 24:15; Ps 35:23–24

God’s justice doubted

Malachi 2:17 NASB95
You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delights in them,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
See also Job 6:29; Job 27:2; Job 34:5; Ps 73:2–14; Ec 8:11; Ec 8:14; Is 40:27; Ro 9:14; Ro 9:19–20

God’s justice demonstrated

In his demands for social justice

Micah 6:8 NASB95
He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?
See also Dt 16:18; Dt 16:20; Is 1:16–17; Am 5:21–24; Mal 3:5; Mt 23:23; Lk 20:46–47

In his defence of the oppressed

Psalm 103:6 NASB95
The Lord performs righteous deeds And judgments for all who are oppressed.
See also Ps 72:2; Ps 140:12; Pr 22:22–23; Is 11:4; Eze 34:16; Lk 18:7–8

In his vindication of the righteous

Romans 8:33 NASB95
Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;
See also Ps 17:1–2; Ps 24:5; Is 50:8–9; Is 54:17; Is 61:8

In the cross

Romans 3:25–26 NASB95
whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
See also 2 Co 5:21; Ga 3:13

In the resurrection

Acts 17:31 NASB95
because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.”

On the day of judgment

Romans 2:5 NASB95
But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
See also Ps 9:8; Ac 17:31; Re 16:5; Re 16:7; Re 19:2
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