Isaiah 5:23

New Century Version

They take money to set the guilty free and don’t allow good people to be judged fairly.

Cross References

Isaiah 10:2

They are not fair to the poor, and they rob my people of their rights. They allow people to steal from widows and to take from orphans what really belongs to them.

James 5:6

You have judged guilty and then murdered innocent people, who were not against you.

Proverbs 17:15

The Lord hates both of these things: freeing the guilty and punishing the innocent.

Psalm 94:21

They join forces against people who do right and sentence to death the innocent.

Micah 7:3

With both hands they are doing evil. Rulers ask for money, and judges’ decisions are bought for a price. Rich people tell what they want, and they get it.

Micah 3:11

Its judges take money to decide who wins in court. Its priests only teach for pay, and its prophets only look into the future when they get paid. But they lean on the Lord and say, “The Lord is here with us, so nothing bad will happen to us.”

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels and friends of thieves. They all accept money for doing wrong, and they are paid to cheat people. They don’t seek justice for the orphans or listen to the widows’ needs.

Proverbs 24:24

Don’t tell the wicked that they are innocent; people will curse you, and nations will hate you.

Proverbs 17:23

When the wicked accept money to do wrong there can be no justice.

2 Chronicles 19:7

Now let each of you fear the Lord. Watch what you do, because the Lord our God wants people to be fair. He wants all people to be treated the same, and he doesn’t want decisions influenced by money.”

Deuteronomy 16:19

Do not judge unfairly or take sides. Do not let people pay you to make wrong decisions, because that kind of payment makes wise people seem blind, and it changes the words of good people.

Matthew 23:35

So you will be guilty for the death of all the good people who have been killed on earth—from the murder of that good man Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berakiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

1 Kings 21:13

Two troublemakers sat across from Naboth and said in front of everybody that they had heard him speak against God and the king. So the people carried Naboth out of the city and killed him with stones.

Isaiah 10:1

How terrible it will be for those who make unfair laws, and those who write laws that make life hard for people.

Isaiah 32:7

The wicked person uses evil like a tool. He plans ways to take everything from the poor. He destroys the poor with lies, even when the poor person is in the right.

Isaiah 59:15

Truth cannot be found anywhere, and people who refuse to do evil are attacked. The Lord looked and could not find any justice, and he was displeased.

Amos 5:12

I know your many crimes, your terrible sins. You hurt people who do right, you take money to do wrong, and you keep the poor from getting justice in court.

Isaiah 28:7

But now those leaders are drunk with wine; they stumble from drinking too much beer. The priests and prophets are drunk with beer and are filled with wine. They stumble from too much beer. The prophets are drunk when they see their visions; the judges stumble when they make their decisions.

Isaiah 29:21

those who lie about others in court, those who trap people in court, those who lie and take justice from innocent people in court.