Isaiah 5:20

Modern King James Version

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!

Cross References

Job 17:12

They set night for day; the light is near in the face of darkness.

Exodus 23:7

Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, even both of them are hateful to Jehovah.

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Isaiah 24:9

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

Isaiah 29:21

those who make a man guilty by a word, and lay a trap for the reprover in the gate, and turn aside the just for a worthless thing.

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy falsehood;

Isaiah 32:5

The fool shall no more be called noble, nor the miser said to be bountiful.

Ezekiel 13:19

And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls that should not die; and to save alive the souls that should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.

Amos 5:7

You who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Micah 3:2

You who hate the good and love the evil; who pull their skin off them, and their flesh from their bones;

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law has become helpless, and justice does not always go forth. For the wicked entraps the righteous; therefore justice goes forth, being perverted.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet you say, In what have we wearied Him? When you say, Every evildoer is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and He delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

Malachi 3:15

And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.

Luke 16:15

And He said to them, You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they have been judged, and the righteous one is declared righteous, and the wrongdoer declared guilty,

2 Peter 2:1

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.