2 Chronicles 6:23

The Message

Listen from heaven and act; judge your servants, making the offender pay for the offense And set the offended free, dismissing all charges.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:22

When someone hurts a neighbor and promises to make things right, and then comes and repeats the promise before your Altar in this Temple,

Psalm 10:14

But you know all about it— the contempt, the abuse. I dare to believe that the luckless will get lucky someday in you. You won’t let them down: orphans won’t be orphans forever.

Proverbs 17:15

Whitewashing bad people and throwing mud on good people are equally abhorrent to God.

Deuteronomy 25:1

When men have a legal dispute, let them go to court; the judges will decide between them, declaring one innocent and the other guilty. If the guilty one deserves punishment, the judge will have him lay himself down before him and lashed as many times as his crime deserves, but not more than forty. If you hit him more than forty times, you will degrade him to something less than human.