Isaiah 5:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ which justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Who justify and acquit the guilty for a bribe, but take away the rights of the innocent and righteous from them!

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Common English Bible

²³ who spare the guilty for bribes, and rob the innocent of their rights.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For you justify an impious man in exchange for bribes, and you carry away the justice of a just man from him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

Isaiah 5:23 Cross References

1 Kings 21:13

And the two men, sons of Belial, came in and sat before him: and the men of Belial bare witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

2 Chronicles 19:7

Now therefore let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

Psalm 94:21

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.

Proverbs 17:15

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

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom, To pervert the ways of judgement.

Proverbs 24:24

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; Peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him:

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Isaiah 10:1

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness:

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from judgement, and to take away the right of the poor of my people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 28:7

But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are gone astray; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgement.

Isaiah 29:21

that make a man an offender in a cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

Isaiah 32:7

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Isaiah 59:15

Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgement.

Amos 5:12

For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.

Micah 3:11

The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the mischief of his soul: thus they weave it together.

Matthew 23:35

that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Thou shalt not wrest judgement; thou shalt not respect persons: neither shalt thou take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you.