True rights come from God, guiding us to live with purpose and dignity. The Bible teaches that with each right comes a responsibility to others. By honoring these responsibilities, we create a just and compassionate world. When we align our rights with God’s will, we find true freedom.
Below is our full list of bible verses on rights (King James Version – KJV) provided in ranked order.
Most Popular Bible Verses About Rights
Proverbs 31:8-9
“8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”
Related Themes: Homelessness Justice Standing Up For Others Poverty
Isaiah 1:17
“17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”
Related Themes: Justice Business Homelessness Strangers Learning
Micah 6:8
“8 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?”
Related Themes: Humility Justice Strangers Business Social Justice
Psalm 82:3
“3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.”
Related Themes: Justice Homelessness Serving The Poor Police
Romans 8:18
“18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
Related Themes: Suffering Hope Business Creativity Lust
Job 36:6
“6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.”
Leviticus 19:33-37
“33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.”
Related Themes: Strangers Equality Trespassing Hospitality
Deuteronomy 10:17-21
“17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.”
Related Themes: Greatness Homelessness Partiality Equality Favoritism
Matthew 8:5-13
“5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.”
Related Themes: Faith
