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For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
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David’s Officials
David reigned over all Israel, doing what was just and right for all his people.
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David’s Officials
David reigned over all Israel, doing what was just and right for all his people.
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Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.
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The King is mighty, he loves justice— you have established equity; in Jacob you have done what is just and right.
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ע Ayin
I have done what is righteous and just; do not leave me to my oppressors.
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for receiving instruction in prudent behavior, doing what is right and just and fair;
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To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
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Salvation for Others
This is what the Lord says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
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For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.
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This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
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“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.
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“‘In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David’s line; he will do what is just and right in the land.
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“Suppose there is a righteous man who does what is just and right.
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“Yet you ask, ‘Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live.
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“But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.
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But if a wicked person turns away from the wickedness they have committed and does what is just and right, they will save their life.
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And if I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but they then turn away from their sin and do what is just and right—
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None of the sins that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.
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And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so.
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“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.
