Bible Verses About Human Rights

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted , to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: