Proverbs 17:15

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Proverbs 17:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible

13 If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.

14 To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.

15 Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous— both are detestable to the LORD.

16 Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?

17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Proverbs 24:24

Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”— peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;

Exodus 23:7

Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.

1 Kings 21:13

And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Isaiah 55:8

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 55:9

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 22:28

Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.

Amos 5:7

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

Amos 5:12

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

Amos 6:12

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Luke 23:18

But they all cried out in unison: “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!”

Luke 23:19

(Barabbas had been imprisoned for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)

Luke 23:20

Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate addressed them again,

Luke 23:21

but they kept shouting, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”

Luke 23:22

A third time he said to them, “What evil has this man done? I have found in Him no offense worthy of death. So after I punish Him, I will release Him.”

Luke 23:23

But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices for Jesus to be crucified. And their clamor prevailed.

Luke 23:24

So Pilate sentenced that their demand be met.

Luke 23:25

As they had requested, he released the one imprisoned for insurrection and murder, and handed Jesus over to their will.

Romans 4:5

However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

James 5:6

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

Proverbs 6:16

There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

Proverbs 11:1

Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.