Proverbs 17:26

New American Bible - revised edition

It is wrong to fine an innocent person, but beyond reason to scourge nobles.

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike! Far be it from you! Should not the judge of all the world do what is just?”

2 Samuel 19:7

by loving those who hate you and hating those who love you. For you have announced today that officers and servants are nothing to you. Indeed I am now certain that if Absalom were alive today and all of us dead, that would be fine with you.

2 Samuel 3:39

Although I am the anointed king, I am weak this day, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too ruthless for me. May the Lord repay the evildoer in accordance with his evil deed.”

Proverbs 17:15

Whoever acquits the wicked, whoever condemns the just— both are an abomination to the Lord.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to favor the guilty, nor to reject the claim of the just.

Micah 5:1

But you, Bethlehem-Ephrathah least among the clans of Judah, From you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel; Whose origin is from of old, from ancient times.

John 18:22

When he had said this, one of the temple guards standing there struck Jesus and said, “Is this the way you answer the high priest?”