What the Bible says about Fairness
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Isaiah 56:1 The word in the Hebrew for "justice" is very close to the word love in actual application. The English word means to be fair, and to be fair is to love everybody. John W. Ritenbaugh The Fourth Commandment (Part 4) Related Topics: Equity | Fair | Fair Minded | Fairness | God's Justice | God's Love | Justice | Love

Habakkuk 2:3-4 Terrible times, God says, are coming, and the proud will be caught in that time. If we want to be spared, if we want to be saved, if we want to witness these things and live eternally beyond it, then we must live by faith and wait for it. It will require perseverance and endurance. The word translated as "faith" is not the normal Hebrew word for faith. It has a meaning more akin to "fairness": The just shall live by his fairness. By extension, we could say, he shall live by his stability, certainty, reliability, personal character, or integrity. A person is faithful to God only because he trusts Him, and therefore, to help us to understand, the translators decided to insert the word "faith" here. Human faithfulness ultimately rests on his trust in God. If a person is going to be faithful, it is because he believes what God says, and he is motivated to have a genuine commitment to righteousness. John W. Ritenbaugh Faith (Part Two) Related Topics: Endurance | Fairness | Faith | Faithfulness | Living by Faith | Perseverance | Righteousness | Righteousness, Seeking God's | Trust in God

1 Peter 3:18 Peter shows us how far the model, Jesus, went in suffering unjustly. It is a high standard, but He went all the way to the death without giving in to His emotions and without allowing Satan to get a hold of Him. Jesus never thought that God was being unfair or unjust in what He was causing or allowing Him to go through. John W. Ritenbaugh Satan (Part 4) Related Topics: Fairness | Fairness of God | God's Fairness | Jesus Christ's Suffering | Meekness | Meekness of Christ | Suffering | Suffering for Righteousness Sake | Suffering Unjustly

 

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