Isaiah 5:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of their rights!

Cross References

1 Kings 21:13

The two scoundrels came in and sat opposite him, and the scoundrels brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.

2 Chronicles 19:7

Now, let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take care what you do, for there is no perversion of justice with the Lord our God or partiality or taking of bribes.”

Psalm 94:21

They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

Proverbs 17:15

One who justifies the wicked and one who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked accept a concealed bribe to pervert the ways of justice.

Proverbs 24:24

Whoever says to the wicked, “You are innocent,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations,

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause does not come before them.

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes,

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, to make widows their spoil and to plunder orphans!

Isaiah 28:7

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink; they are confused with wine; they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in giving judgment.

Isaiah 29:21

those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate and undermine justice for the one in the right.

Isaiah 32:7

The villainies of villains are evil; they devise wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

Isaiah 59:15

Truth is lacking, and whoever turns from evil is despoiled. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe and push aside the needy in the gate.

Micah 3:11

Its rulers give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets give oracles for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Surely the Lord is with us! No harm shall come upon us.”

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

Matthew 23:35

so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.