Verse 7

Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 34:7 : 7 keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
  • Exod 23:1 : 1 Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
  • Deut 27:25 : 25 Cursed be he that taketh a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
  • Rom 1:18 : 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;
  • Lev 19:11 : 11 Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.
  • Deut 19:16-21 : 16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing, 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days; 18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and have testified falsely against his brother; 19 then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to do unto his brother: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. 20 And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee. 21 And thine eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
  • Exod 20:13 : 13 Thou shalt not kill.
  • Job 22:23 : 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
  • Prov 4:14-15 : 14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
  • Prov 17:15 : 15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:
  • Nah 1:3 : 3 Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear [the guilty] : Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
  • Luke 3:14 : 14 And soldiers also asked him, saying, And we, what must we do? And he said unto them, Extort from no man by violence, neither accuse [any one] wrongfully; and be content with your wages. [
  • Rom 2:5-6 : 5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 who will render to every man according to his works:
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 abstain from every form of evil.