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Demand Justice – Our courts should serve everyone.
Justice is the concept of fair and equitable treatment, applying laws impartially, righting wrongs, and ensuring people get what they deserve, encompassing ideas like fairness, ethics, and upholding the rule of law, often administered through legal systems and embodied by figures like judges (Justices). It involves various types, including distributive (fair allocation), procedural (fair process), retributive (fair punishment), and restorative (repairing harm) justice, aiming for societal fairness, safety, and civil rights protection, as seen in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Key Aspects of Justice:

Fairness & Impartiality: Treating individuals equitably, without prejudice, and in a reasonable manner.
Legal & Ethical Principle: A core ethical concept and a fundamental function of legal systems to judge cases, redress wrongs, and punish crimes.

Types:

Distributive: Fair distribution of resources, benefits, and burdens.
Procedural: Fair processes and rules in legal proceedings.
Retributive: Punishment proportional to the crime.
Restorative: Repairing harm and restoring relationships.
Administration: Dispensed by courts and judges (Justices), with the goal of protecting rights and upholding the law, as seen in the U.S. Department of Justice, which works to keep the country safe and protect civil rights.

Justice in Practice:

Legal System: The process involves investigation, charging, trial, sentencing, and appeals, all aiming for a just outcome.
Social Justice: Striving for fairness and equity for all people, ensuring fundamental human dignity isn’t violated by arbitrary discrimination.
U.S. Department of Justice: Aims to uphold the rule of law, ensure public safety, and protect civil rights through various divisions, including Civil Rights,.

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In the Bible, justice is defined as the equitable, fair, and impartial treatment of all people according to God’s moral law, which includes treating others with fairness, upholding the rights of the vulnerable, and acting with integrity. It is both a personal quality of righteousness and a social principle requiring fairness in legal and economic systems. Ultimately, it is grounded in God’s own just nature and His demand for his people to act justly.

Core components of biblical justice

Fairness and impartiality: Justice demands that all individuals be treated equally under the law, regardless of their social status, wealth, or other affiliations. This includes impartiality in courts and fair weights and measures in business.

Rights of the vulnerable: A central aspect of biblical justice is the protection and care of the poor, the oppressed, and the vulnerable. It requires kindness to the needy and has no tolerance for mistreating or oppressing the weak.

Righteous conduct: Justice is closely tied to righteousness, meaning a person who is just is also a person of integrity who does what is right and fair toward others. This can include generosity towards the poor.

God’s role: The concept of justice is inseparable from God, who is the ultimate standard of justice and whose rule is grounded in equity. He judges and acts justly, and He demands that humans do the same.

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25 Bible Verses About Justice – What the Bible Says About Justice
God says justice is central to His character and commands His people to pursue it, emphasizing fairness, protecting the vulnerable (widows, orphans, poor), correcting oppression, showing mercy, and acting with righteousness, seeing it as essential for life and alignment with Him, not just punishment but ensuring everyone gets their due. Key themes include loving justice (Psalm 33:5), speaking for the voiceless (Proverbs 31:8-9), and living justly (Micah 6:8).

Core Principles of God’s Justice

God Loves Justice: The Bible repeatedly states God loves justice and righteousness, and His throne is founded on them (Psalm 89:14, 99:4).
Defending the Weak: God actively upholds the cause of the oppressed, the fatherless, and the widow (Psalm 82:3-4, Isaiah 1:17).
Action, Not Just Ritual: Doing justice and loving mercy is more important than mere sacrifices (Micah 6:8, Proverbs 21:3).
Fairness & Impartiality: Justice requires fair judgment, avoiding bribes and partiality (Deuteronomy 16:18).
Restoration & Mercy: Justice involves restoring the downtrodden, not just punishing wrongdoers (Isaiah 42:3-4, Luke 4:18-19).

What God Commands His People

Seek Justice: “Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression” (Isaiah 1:17).
Speak for the Voiceless: “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute” (Proverbs 31:8-9).
Pursue it Diligently: “Justice, justice you shall pursue, that you may live and inherit the land” (Deuteronomy 16:20).
Act Justly: “He has shown you, O mortal, 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” (Micah 6:8).

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[Rom 10:3-4, 9-10 KJV] 3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. … 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

[Eph 2:1 KJV] And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins;
[Eph 2:2 KJV] Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
[Eph 2:3 KJV] Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
[Eph 2:4 KJV] But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
[Eph 2:5 KJV] Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
[Eph 2:6 KJV] And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus:
[Eph 2:7 KJV] That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
[Eph 2:8 KJV] For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
[Eph 2:9 KJV] Not of works, lest any man should boast.

[Rom 4:16 KJV] Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

[Rom 5:2 KJV] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

God is a Spirit, not a religion.  Yes, the bible is a religious book, but it is also a spiritual book.  God is the Spirit of Truth.  God’s Word has multiple functions that include both religious and spiritual works, concepts and applications.  No religious work can get you to God.  Jesus did the work of dying for your sins on the cross.  Religious people killed Him.  But the good news is that He rose again (in the flesh) on the third day by the Spirit of God because He had not sinned.  [John 1:17 KJV] For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. [John 4:24 KJV] God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth. 

The Spirit of God knows you better than you know yourself.  You can’t lie to God, either.  God knows if you want to give your life to Him, or live for yourself and your sins in this world. He certainly knows what you believe in your heart about His Son and if  you’ve accepted His payment for your sins, or not. That’s why God Himself will ‘validate’ your belief and personally send you His Spirit when He knows you have come into agreement with Him and believe in your heart that Jesus died for your sins and that He rose again. 

Until then, you are simply playing at religion or living for your old ways, but you will never fool God. 

[Luke 5:31-32 KJV] And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.  I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

[John 3:7 KJV] Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.