Bible Verses for Just War
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Biblical guidance and verses about just war.
Key verse snapshot
“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.”
Bible Verses about Just War
6 Scripture passages on this theme
Leviticus 19:36
“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.”
1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Ezekiel 45:10
“Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.”
Deuteronomy 25:15
“But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
Isaiah 26:7
“The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.”
1 Peter 3:18
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”
Apply These Verses to Your Life
Scripture comes alive when we meditate on it and apply it daily. Read these verses in full context, pray for understanding, and ask God how they speak to your situation with just war.