Proverbs 17:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ One who justifies the wicked and one who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, Even they both are abomination to the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both an abomination [exceedingly disgusting and hateful] to the Lord. [Exod. 23:7; Prov. 24:24; Isa. 5:23.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Judging the righteous wicked and the wicked righteous— the LORD detests both of these.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Those who justify the impious, and those who condemn the just, both are abominable with God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.

Proverbs 17:15 Cross References

1 Kings 21:13

The two scoundrels came in and sat opposite him, and the scoundrels brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.

Psalm 94:21

They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

Exodus 23:7

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but an accurate weight is his delight.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 17:26

To impose a fine on the innocent is not right or to flog the noble for their integrity.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not right to be partial to the guilty or to subvert the innocent in judgment.

Proverbs 31:5

lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

Proverbs 6:16

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of their rights!

Lamentations 3:35

when justice is perverted in the presence of the Most High,

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death those who should not die and keeping alive those who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe and push aside the needy in the gate.

Amos 5:7

Ah, you who turn justice to wormwood and bring righteousness to the ground!

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Romans 4:5

But to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness.

Deuteronomy 25:1

“Suppose two persons have a dispute and enter into litigation, and the judges decide between them, declaring one to be in the right and the other to be in the wrong.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.