Zechariah 7:9

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““This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.”

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BSBPD

““This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thus hath Jehovah of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Zechariah 7:9 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 19:15You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
  2. Leviticus 19:35You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
  3. Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
  4. Deuteronomy 15:7If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
  5. Deuteronomy 16:18You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
  6. Job 31:20if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
  7. Psalms 82:2“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
  8. Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
  9. Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
  10. Isaiah 58:6Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
  11. Jeremiah 7:5For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
  12. Jeremiah 7:23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
  13. Jeremiah 21:12O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
  14. Ezekiel 45:9For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
  15. Hosea 10:12Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
  16. Hosea 12:7A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
  17. Amos 5:24But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
  18. Micah 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  19. Zechariah 7:7Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
  20. Zechariah 8:16These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
  21. Matthew 23:23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
  22. Luke 11:42Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.
  23. John 7:51“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
  24. James 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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