Deuteronomy 16:20
Good News Translation
Always be fair and just, so that you will occupy the land that the LORD your God is giving you and so that you will continue to live there.

New Revised Standard Version
Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, so that you may live and occupy the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Contemporary English Version
People of Israel, if you want to enjoy a long and successful life, make sure that everyone is treated with justice in the land the LORD is giving you.

New American Bible
Justice, justice alone shall you pursue, so that you may live and possess the land the LORD, your God, is giving you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou mayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

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Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou mayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

That which, etc.

Deuteronomy 25:13-16 Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less: . . .

Micah 6:8 I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Philippians 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

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Deuteronomy 4:1 And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.

Ezekiel 18:5,9 And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice, . . .

Romans 10:5 For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

Context
Judges and Justice
19And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just. 20Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou mayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:1
And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.

Deuteronomy 16:21
Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:

Deuteronomy 16:19
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