Deuteronomy 27:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.

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  • Exod 23:7-8 : 7 Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin. 8 Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.
  • Deut 10:17 : 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.
  • Prov 1:11-29 : 11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; 13 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth; 14 Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag: 15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways: 16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life. 17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: 18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. 19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners. 20 Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; 21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: 22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge? 23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you. 24 Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand; 25 You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words: 26 So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear; 27 When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you. 28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me: 29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
  • Ezek 22:12-13 : 12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord. 13 See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.
  • Mic 3:10-11 : 10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing. 11 Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
  • Mic 7:2-3 : 2 The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net. 3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
  • Matt 26:15 : 15 What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.
  • Matt 27:3-4 : 3 Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority, 4 Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.
  • Acts 1:18 : 18 (Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 27:15-24
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    84%

    15 Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

    16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

    17 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.

    18 Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people say, So be it.

    19 Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

    20 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.

    21 Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it.

    22 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

    23 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it.

    24 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Deut 27:26
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    26 Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Exod 23:7-8
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    73%

    7 Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

    8 Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

  • Ps 94:21
    72%

    21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

  • Num 35:30-31
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    72%

    30 Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.

    31 Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.

  • Deut 19:10
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    10 So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

  • Lev 24:17
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    17 And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

  • Jer 48:10
    71%

    10 Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.

  • Prov 24:24
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    24 He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.

  • Deut 13:9
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    9 But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

  • Deut 19:12-13
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    12 The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

    13 Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

  • Lev 24:21
    70%

    21 He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

  • Deut 17:7
    70%

    7 The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

  • Matt 27:4
    69%

    4 Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

  • Isa 33:15
    69%

    15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;

  • Matt 27:25
    69%

    25 And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

  • Lev 24:15
    69%

    15 And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.

  • 1 Sam 17:27
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    27 And the people gave him this answer, So it will be done to the man who overcomes him.

  • Deut 21:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8 Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.

    9 So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Prov 28:17
    68%

    17 One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

  • Ezek 18:13
    68%

    13 And has given out his money at interest and taken great profits: he will certainly not go on living: he has done all these disgusting things: death will certainly be his fate; his blood will be on him.

  • Exod 21:12
    68%

    12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

  • Prov 28:20
    68%

    20 A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.

  • Ps 26:10
    68%

    10 In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

  • Ps 15:5
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    5 He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.

  • Exod 21:14
    68%

    14 But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

  • Prov 1:11
    68%

    11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

  • Jer 26:15
    68%

    15 Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears.

  • Zech 5:3
    68%

    3 Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.

  • Exod 21:30
    68%

    30 If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.

  • Ps 37:22
    67%

    22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

  • Lev 20:9
    67%

    9 Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.

  • Jer 22:17
    67%

    17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • Exod 21:17
    67%

    17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.