125 Bible Verses about judges

Revelation 11:15-18

[The Last Trumpet Sounds] The angry nations now get a taste of your anger. The time has come to judge the dead, to reward your servants, all prophets and saints, Reward small and great who fear your Name, and destroy the destroyers of earth.

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Acts 24:10-13

Paul said, "I count myself fortunate to be defending myself before you, Governor, knowing how fair-minded you've been in judging us all these years. I've been back in the country only twelve days—you can check out these dates easily enough.

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Psalm 72:1-8

[A Solomon Psalm] Give the gift of wise rule to the king, O God, the gift of just rule to the crown prince. May he judge your people rightly, be honorable to your meek and lowly.

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1 Corinthians 6:1-4

Why, we're even going to judge angels! So why not these everyday affairs?

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Psalm 67:1-7

Let all far-flung people become happy and shout their happiness because You judge them fair and square, you tend the far-flung peoples.

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Revelation 19:11-16

[A White Horse and Its Rider] The Rider, named Faithful and True, judges and makes war in pure righteousness. His eyes are a blaze of fire, on his head many crowns.

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Acts 10:39-43

He commissioned us to announce this in public, to bear solemn witness that he is in fact the One whom God destined as Judge of the living and dead. But we're not alone in this.

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Hebrews 10:26-31

He was quite explicit: "Vengeance is mine, and I won't overlook a thing" and "God will judge his people." Nobody's getting by with anything, believe me.

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Psalm 109:6-20

Send the Evil One to accuse my accusing judge; dispatch Satan to prosecute him. When he's judged, let the verdict be "Guilty," and when he prays, let his prayer turn to sin.

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Ezekiel 21:28-32

Return the sword to the sheath! I'll judge you in your home country, in the land where you grew up.

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1 Chronicles 17:7-10

I'm going to set aside a place for my people Israel and plant them there so they'll have their own home and not be knocked around anymore; nor will evil nations afflict them as they always have, even during the days I set judges over my people Israel. And finally, I'm going to conquer all your enemies.

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2 Samuel 7:8-11

Nor will evil men afflict you as they always have, even during the days I set judges over my people Israel. Finally, I'm going to give you peace from all your enemies.

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Job 23:1-7

[Job's Defense] He'd see a straight-living man standing before him; my Judge would acquit me for good of all charges.

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Numbers 35:22-27

"If, however, he impulsively pushes someone and there is no history of hard feelings, or he impetuously picks up something and throws it, or he accidentally drops a stone tool—a maul or hammer, say—and it hits and kills someone he didn't even know was there, and there's no suspicion that there was bad blood between them, the community is to judge between the killer and the avenger following these guidelines.

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2 Chronicles 1:1-6

[King Solomon] Solomon addressed all Israel— the commanders and captains, the judges, every leader, and all the heads of families.

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Zephaniah 3:1-5

[Sewer City] Her very own leaders are rapacious lions, Her judges are rapacious timber wolves out every morning prowling for a fresh kill.

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Isaiah 3:1-7

[Jerusalem on Its Last Legs] He's withdrawing police and protection, judges and courts, pastors and teachers, captains and generals, doctors and nurses, and, yes, even the repairmen and jacks-of-all-trades.

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Job 9:14-20

Even though I'm innocent I could never prove it; I can only throw myself on the Judge's mercy. If I called on God and he himself answered me, then, and only then, would I believe that he'd heard me.

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1 Kings 8:27-32

When someone hurts a neighbor and promises to make things right, and then comes and repeats the promise before your Altar in this Temple, listen from heaven and act accordingly: Judge your servants, making the offender pay for his offense and setting the offended free of any charges.

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Job 12:13-25

[From God We Learn How to Live] He strips experts of their vaunted credentials, exposes judges as witless fools. He divests kings of their royal garments, then ties a rag around their waists.

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Isaiah 1:24-31

I'll give you the back of my hand, purge the junk from your life, clean you up. I'll set honest judges and wise counselors among you just like it was back in the beginning.

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Revelation 18:1-8

[Doom to the City of Darkness] Because she gloated, "I'm queen over all, and no widow, never a tear on my face," In one day, disasters will crush her— death, heartbreak, and famine— Then she'll be burned by fire, because God, the Strong God who judges her, has had enough.

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Ezra 4:8-16

Rehum the commanding officer and Shimshai the secretary wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows: From: Rehum the commanding officer and Shimshai the secretary, backed by the rest of their associates, the judges and officials over the people from Tripolis, Persia, Erech, and Babylon, Elamites of Susa, and all the others whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the city of Samaria and other places in the land across the Euphrates.

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Ezekiel 7:19-27

I'll deal with them where they are, judge them on their terms. They'll know that I am God.'"

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Judges 11:14-27

But this is an evil thing that you are doing to me by starting a fight. Today GOD the Judge will decide between the People of Israel and the people of Ammon."

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