Zechariah 7:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Judge with true justice, and show kindness and compassion toward each other.

Cross References

2 Samuel 9:7

“Do not be afraid,” David said to him, “I will surely be kind to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. I will restore to you all the lands of Saul your grandfather, and you shall eat at my table always.”

Job 31:20

Whose limbs have not blessed me when warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Job 6:14

A friend owes kindness to one in despair, though he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty.

Proverbs 21:3

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Jeremiah 21:12

house of David! Thus says the Lord: Each morning dispense justice, rescue the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor, Or my fury will break out like fire and burn with no one to quench it because of your evil deeds.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Do what is right and just. Rescue the victims from the hand of their oppressors. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 7:23

This rather is what I commanded them: Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk exactly in the way I command you, so that you may prosper.

Jeremiah 7:5

Only if you thoroughly reform your ways and your deeds; if each of you deals justly with your neighbor;

Ezekiel 18:8

if he does not lend at interest or exact usury; if he refrains from evildoing and makes a fair judgment between two opponents;

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right! Stop evicting my people!—oracle of the Lord God. Weights and Measures.

Hosea 12:7

You must return to your God. Maintain loyalty and justice and always hope in your God.

Leviticus 19:15

You shall not act dishonestly in rendering judgment. Show neither partiality to the weak nor deference to the mighty, but judge your neighbor justly.

Amos 5:24

Rather let justice surge like waters, and righteousness like an unfailing stream.

Micah 6:8

You have been told, O mortal, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.

Zechariah 7:7

Are these not the words which the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding cities were inhabited and secure, when the Negeb and the Shephelah were inhabited?

Zechariah 7:8

The word of the Lord came to Zechariah:

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. [But] these you should have done, without neglecting the others.

Luke 11:42

Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgment and to love for God. These you should have done, without overlooking the others.

John 7:24

Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly.”

John 7:51

“Does our law condemn a person before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?”

Deuteronomy 22:1

You shall not see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray and ignore it; you must bring it back.