Quotes about Equality
The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
— Isaiah 11:7
They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”
— Isaiah 14:10
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
— Isaiah 24:2
Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
— Isaiah 56:3
Isn’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?
— Isaiah 58:6
He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 22:16
that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
— Jeremiah 34:9
So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,
— Jeremiah 34:10
Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
— Ezekiel 33:17
For 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.’
— Ezekiel 45:9
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
— Ezekiel 45:10
You are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with an uplifted hand to give it to your forefathers, this land will fall to you as an inheritance.
— Ezekiel 47:14