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What is Social Justice & Righteousness in the Bible?

Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/justice-part-2-what-social-justice-and-righteousness-bible/

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God & Work

What this book knows

Biblical justice (mishpat) and righteousness (tzedakah) are relational obligations toward the vulnerable, not abstract principles—God's own character made social.

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Righteousness is the standard of relating to everyone else in my life in a right way—always referring to my righteousness towards someone else.
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When you do tzedakah, 9 times out of 10 it's talking about doing right by the poor in your community.
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Knowing your Creator means knowing the God who notices the problems of other people and makes them his problem—that's who God is.
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God has a preferential option for the poor—not meaning God loves only the poor, but that the God of the Exodus sides with the oppressed.
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Justice and righteousness primarily means my posture toward the vulnerable and poor in my community—and it's not simple.
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Lower classes are not only disproportionately harmed—the reason this is a big deal for Old Testament authors is fairly universal to the human condition.
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