20 Bible Verses about People Involved In Judgement

The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.

When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a person and his neighbor, and make known the statutes of God and his instructions."

Then the priests of the descendants of Levi are to step forward, because the LORD your God chose them to serve and pronounce blessings in his name. Every case of dispute and assault is to be subject to their ruling.

They judged the people at all times; the difficult matters they brought to Moses, but every minor matter they judged.

For thrones are established there for judgment, thrones of the house of David.

"You are to make a breast piece to be worn by the high priest when he makes legal decisions. It is to be skillfully worked, made like the work of the ephod from gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material, and from fine woven linen.

"Aaron is to carry the names of Israel's sons on his heart on the breast piece to be worn by the high priest when he makes legal decisions, that is, whenever he goes into the Holy Place in order to remember them continuously in the LORD's presence.

You are to put the Urim and Thummim into the breast piece of judgment, and they are to be on Aaron's heart when he goes into the LORD's presence. He is to carry the breast piece of decision that depicts Israel's sons on his heart in the LORD's presence continuously."

and a spirit of justice to the one who sits in judgment, a source of strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

Samuel was displeased when they said, "Give us a king to govern us." So Samuel prayed to the LORD.

So give your servant an understanding mind to govern your people, so I can discern between good and evil. Otherwise, how will I be able to govern this great people of yours?"

He constructed the Judgment Hall for the throne room where he would be ruling, paneling it with cedar from floor to ceiling.

God, endow the king with ability to render your justice, and the king's son to render your right decisions. May he rule your people with right decisions and your oppressed ones with justice.

When a king is ready to speak officially, what he says should not err with respect to justice.

"The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I'll deal with them according to their behavior and I will judge them by how they've judged. Then they'll learn that I am the LORD."

I'll judge you with the same standards by which I issue verdicts against a woman who commits adultery and murder. I'll avenge the blood you've shed with impassioned wrath.

How is it that by remaining silent you can speak righteously? How can you judge people fairly?

But Paul appealed his case and asked to be held in prison until the decision of his Majesty. So I ordered him to be held in custody until I could send him to the emperor."

They examined me and wanted to let me go because there was no reason for me to receive the death penalty in my case.

But if we judged ourselves correctly, we would not be judged.