But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished — he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
- Romans 3:21-26
The Public Life of Us
Towards an assessment of Justice, Judgment, and Christian Practice
Issues in Theology Seminar   May 2009   Sam Freney
Justice in Public Consciousness
God's Character
Judgement 
in the Church
The Church in
the public arena
Questions?
Yahweh—Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth, maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving wrongdoing, rebellion, and sin. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.
- Exodus 34:6-7
The person who sins is the one who will die. A son won’t suffer punishment for the father’s iniquity, and a father won’t suffer punishment for the son’s iniquity. The righteousness of the righteous person will be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked person will be on him … But the house of Israel says: The Lord’s way isn’t fair. Is it My ways that are unfair, house of Israel? Instead, isn’t it your ways that are unfair?   “Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each one of you according to his ways.” |This is| the declaration of the Lord GOD. “Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so they will not be a stumbling block that causes your punishment.
- Ezekiel 18:20, 29-30
"Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy."
- Lev 19:2
What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?  God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.” 
- 1 Cor 5:12-13
“If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
Matt 18:15-17
Democracy is not an intrinsic good, after all. Where the moral formation of a people is deficient, the general will malign, or historical circumstance unpropitious, it is quite unamiguously wicked in its results...The only sound premise for a people's self-governance is a culture of common virtue directed towards the one Good. And a society that can no longer conceive of freedom as anything more than limitless choice and uninhibited self-expression must of necessity progessively conclude that al things should be permitted, that all values are relative, that desire fashions its own truth, that there is no such thing as 'nature', that we are our own creatures. The ultimate consequence of a purely libertarian political ethcs, if it could be take to its logical end would be a world in which we would no longer even remember that we should want to choose the good, as we would have learned to deem things good solely because they have been chosen... 
-David Bentley Hart, 'In the Aftermath', p. 80
According to Gen. 3:5 the temptation which involves man's disobedience to God's commandment is the evil desire to know what is good and evil. He ought to leave this knowledge to God, to see his freedom in his ability to adhere to God's decisions in his own decisions. He becomes a sinner in trying to be as God: himself a judge.
- Barth, CD IV/I §59, 232.
We must pause for a moment to consider a statement which plays no little part in the New Testament, that the coming into the world of the Son of God includes within itself the appearance and work of the Judge of the world and of every man. If He were not the Judge, He would not be the Saviour. He is the Saviour of the world in so far as in a very definite (and most astonishing) way He is also its Judge. 
- Barth, CD IV/I §59, 216--17
According to Gen. 3:5 the temptation which involves man's disobedience to God's commandment is the evil desire to know what is good and evil. He ought to leave this knowledge to God, to see his freedom in his ability to adhere to God's decisions in his own decisions. He becomes a sinner in trying to be as God: himself a judge.
- Barth, CD IV/I §59, 232.
Christian political thought … has an apologetic force when addressed to a world where the intelligibility of political institutions and traditions is seriously threatened. … Western civilization finds itself the heir of political institutions and traditions which it values without any clear idea why, or to what extent, it values them.
- O’Donovan, The Ways of Judgment, xii—xiii.
The Christian faith is not to be offered to the world as the only hope for democracy and human rights, though there may be occasional observations to be made along those lines [in passing]. Recovery of theological description enables us to understand not only what the goods of our institutions and traditions are, but why and how those goods are limited and corruptible, and to what corresponding errors they have made us liable. It enables us, in other words, to understand the dilemmas that our tradition has generated. 
- O’Donovan, The Ways of Judgment, xiv—xv.