God the Righteous Judge

There are over 76 Scriptures that speaks of God as a judge and the heavenly Judicial system

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Psalm 75:7
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But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and exalts another.

Psalm 50:6
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And the heavens declare His righteousness,
For God Himself is judge. Selah.

Psalm 76:8-9
You caused judgment to be heard from heaven;
The earth feared and was still
When God arose to judgment,
To save all the humble of the earth. Selah.

Isaiah 33:22
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For the Lord is our judge,
The Lord is our lawgiver,
The Lord is our king;
He will save us—

Isaiah 66:16
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For the Lord will execute judgment by fire
And by His sword on all flesh,
And those slain by the Lord will be many.

2 Timothy 4:8
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in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.

Hebrews 12:23
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to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

James 4:12
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There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?

Judges 11:27
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I therefore have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by making war against me; may the Lord, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.’â€

Genesis 16:5
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And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her sight. May the Lord judge between you and me.â€

Genesis 31:53
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The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.†So Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

1 Samuel 24:15
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The Lord therefore be judge and decide between you and me; and may He see and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.â€

Isaiah 2:4
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And He will judge between the nations,
And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.

Micah 4:3
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And He will judge between many peoples
And render decisions for mighty, distant nations.
Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they train for war.

James 5:9
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Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.

Isaiah 3:13
The Lord arises to contend,
And stands to judge the people.

Psalm 50:4
He summons the heavens above,
And the earth, to judge His people:

Psalm 82:1
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A Psalm of Asaph.
God takes His stand in His own congregation;
He judges in the midst of the rulers.

Daniel 7:9-10
“I kept looking
Until thrones were set up,
And the Ancient of Days took His seat;
His vesture was like white snow
And the hair of His head like pure wool.
His throne was ablaze with flames,
Its wheels were a burning fire.
“A river of fire was flowing
And coming out from before Him;
Thousands upon thousands were attending Him,
And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him;
The court sat,
And the books were opened.

Joel 3:12
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Let the nations be aroused
And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat,
For there I will sit to judge
All the surrounding nations.

Revelation 20:11-15
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.read more.

Genesis 18:25
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Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?â€

Psalm 9:8
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And He will judge the world in righteousness;
He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity.

Psalm 58:11
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And men will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
Surely there is a God who judges on earth!â€

Psalm 82:8
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Arise, O God, judge the earth!
For it is You who possesses all the nations.

Psalm 94:2
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Rise up, O Judge of the earth,
Render recompense to the proud.

Psalm 96:13
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Before the Lord, for He is coming,
For He is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
And the peoples in His faithfulness.

Psalm 98:9
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Before the Lord, for He is coming to judge the earth;
He will judge the world with righteousness
And the peoples with equity.

Ezekiel 33:20
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Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.â€

Hebrews 9:27
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And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

1 Peter 4:5
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but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Revelation 20:12
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And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.

Psalm 9:19-20
Arise, O Lord, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged before You.
Put them in fear, O Lord;
Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.

Psalm 110:6
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He will judge among the nations,
He will fill them with corpses,
He will shatter the chief men over a broad country.

Zephaniah 3:8
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“Therefore wait for Me,†declares the Lord,
“For the day when I rise up as a witness.
Indeed, My decision is to gather nations,
To assemble kingdoms,
To pour out on them My indignation,
All My burning anger;
For all the earth will be devoured
By the fire of My zeal.

Isaiah 40:23
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He it is who reduces rulers to nothing,
Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

Jeremiah 25:17-27
Then I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day; Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes and all his people;read more.

Revelation 6:15-17
Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; and they *said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?â€

Hebrews 10:30
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For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.†And again, “The Lord will judge His people.â€

Deuteronomy 32:36
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“For the Lord will vindicate His people,
And will have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their strength is gone,
And there is none remaining, bond or free.

Psalm 78:62
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He also delivered His people to the sword,
And was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

Jeremiah 1:16
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I will pronounce My judgments on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

1 Peter 4:17
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For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

2 Peter 2:4
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For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

Genesis 3:14-15
The Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life;
And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.â€

Matthew 25:41
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“Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;

1 Timothy 3:6
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and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil.

Revelation 20:10
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And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Genesis 3:8-9
They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?â€

Job 11:20
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“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And there will be no escape for them;
And their hope is to breathe their last.â€

Jeremiah 11:11
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Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold I am bringing disaster on them which they will not be able to escape; though they will cry to Me, yet I will not listen to them.

Amos 9:1-4
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said,
“Smite the capitals so that the thresholds will shake,
And break them on the heads of them all!
Then I will slay the rest of them with the sword;
They will not have a fugitive who will flee,
Or a refugee who will escape.
“Though they dig into Sheol,
From there will My hand take them;
And though they ascend to heaven,
From there will I bring them down.
“Though they hide on the summit of Carmel,
I will search them out and take them from there;
And though they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent and it will bite them.
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Jeremiah 17:10
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“I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds.

1 Chronicles 28:9
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“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

Psalm 7:9
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O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous;
For the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

Proverbs 5:21
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For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord,
And He watches all his paths.

Jeremiah 11:20
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But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously,
Who tries the feelings and the heart,
Let me see Your vengeance on them,
For to You have I committed my cause.

Romans 2:16
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on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.

Jeremiah 16:17
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For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.

1 Corinthians 4:5
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Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men’s hearts; and then each man’s praise will come to him from God.

Hebrews 4:13
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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.

Genesis 6:7
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The Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.â€

Genesis 7:21-23
All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.

Genesis 4:9-12
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?†And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?†He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground. Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.read more.

Acts 5:3-10
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.†And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last; and great fear came over all who heard of it.read more.

Acts 13:8-11
But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. But Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him, and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?read more.

Joshua 7:24-25
Then Joshua and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the mantle, the bar of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent and all that belonged to him; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.†And all Israel stoned them with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.

1 Samuel 3:12-13
In that day I will carry out against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. For I have told him that I am about to judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves and he did not rebuke them.

Genesis 19:24-25
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven, and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

Joshua 6:24
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They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 7:1-5
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.read more.

2 Chronicles 26:16-21
But when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the Lord his God, for he entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. Then Azariah the priest entered after him and with him eighty priests of the Lord, valiant men. They opposed Uzziah the king and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful and will have no honor from the Lord God.â€read more.

Daniel 4:31-33
While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven, saying, ‘King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared: sovereignty has been removed from you, and you will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling place will be with the beasts of the field. You will be given grass to eat like cattle, and seven periods of time will pass over you until you recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes.’ Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

Daniel 5:22-30
Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this, but you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified. Then the hand was sent from Him and this inscription was written out.read more.

Acts 12:22-23
The people kept crying out, “The voice of a god and not of a man!†And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Judges 2:11-15
Then the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals, and they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the Lord to anger. So they forsook the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.read more.

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