The best Bible verses for justice for kids include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for justice for kids, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"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."Isaiah 56:1
"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."Isaiah 56:1
"No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil."Isaiah 59:4
"The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks in them will know peace."Isaiah 59:8
"So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows."Isaiah 59:9
"We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away."Isaiah 59:11
"So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter."Isaiah 59:14
"Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice."Isaiah 59:15
"“For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity. In my faithfulness I will reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them."Isaiah 61:8
"but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the Lord."Jeremiah 9:24
"Correct me, Lord, but only with justice— not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing."Jeremiah 10:24
"You are always righteous, O Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?"Jeremiah 12:1
"And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’"Luke 18:3
"yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually wear me out with her coming!’”"Luke 18:5
"And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?"Luke 18:7
Scripture does not change for its audience, but which passages land does. The 15 verses below were chosen because they are accessible to justice for kids without being condescending — plain in their language, concrete in their imagery, and short enough to hold in mind.
The point is not a simplified Bible. It is picking the passages that already speak clearly, so the reader meets the text itself rather than a paraphrase of it.
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The most-cited Bible verses for justice for kids are Isaiah 56:1, Isaiah 59:4, Isaiah 59:8. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to justice for kids across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for justice for kids, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.