APPROPRIATE SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

Genesis 37:18—20 They saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. They said to each other, "Here comes that dreamer. Now is our chance; let us kill him and throw him into one of these pits and say that a wild beast has devoured him. Then we shall see what will become of his dreams".

Psalms 82:3—4 Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Proverbs 21:3 Do what is right and just; that is more pleasing to God than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:16—17 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 51:7 Hearken unto me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of people, and be not dismayed by their revilings.

Amos 5:21—24 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts, I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.

Matthew 5:3—12 Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the realm of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall

Clossians 3:12—14 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving one another; as God has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Md above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

2 Peter 3:13 What we await are new heavens and a new
earth where, according to God’s promise,
the justice of God will reside.

NOTE: These scripture passages have been quoted from The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version and the Inclusive Language Lectionary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, from The New English Bible of the Oxford University Press, from the New American Bible of the Roman Catholic Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, and from the Thompson Chain Reference Bible.