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Proverbs 17:15

New King James Version

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.

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

Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away justice from the righteous man!

It is not good to show partiality to the wicked, Or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But the prayer of the upright is His delight.

You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.

But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

For I know your manifold transgressions And your mighty sins: Afflicting the just and taking bribes; Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.

You who turn justice to wormwood, And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him:

And two men, scoundrels, came in and sat before him; and the scoundrels witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth has blasphemed God and the king!” Then they took him outside the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.

Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, But a just weight is His delight.

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

Also, to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to strike princes for their uprightness.

Lest they drink and forget the law, And pervert the justice of all the afflicted.

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!

To turn aside the justice due a man Before the face of the Most High,

“If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, killing people who should not die, and keeping people alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies?”




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