Isaiah 5:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 94:21 : 21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
  • Mic 3:11 : 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 7:3 : 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.
  • Prov 17:15 : 15 He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.
  • Prov 17:23 : 23 A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.
  • Prov 24:24 : 24 He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.
  • Prov 31:4-5 : 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink? 5 For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.
  • Exod 23:6-9 : 6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause. 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. 9 Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.
  • 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.
  • 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
  • 2 Chr 19:7 : 7 So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.
  • Matt 23:35 : 35 So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.
  • Matt 27:24-25 : 24 So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible. 25 And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

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  • Prov 17:15
    79%

    15 He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

  • Isa 10:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1 Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

    2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • Amos 5:7
    78%

    7 You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

  • Prov 21:7
    78%

    7 By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Jer 5:28-29
    2 verses
    77%

    28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

    29 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Prov 17:23
    77%

    23 A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

  • Hab 1:4
    77%

    4 For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    76%

    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

    12 For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

  • Isa 33:15
    75%

    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;

  • Job 34:5
    75%

    5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

  • Prov 25:5
    75%

    5 Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.

  • Lam 3:35
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    35 In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.

  • Mic 7:3
    75%

    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.

  • Prov 11:5-6
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    75%

    5 The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

    6 The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

  • Exod 23:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Prov 24:24
    74%

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

  • Prov 13:6
    74%

    6 Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

  • Isa 29:21
    74%

    21 Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

  • Job 36:17
    74%

    17 ...

  • Prov 22:23
    74%

    23 For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

  • Deut 25:1
    74%

    1 If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.

  • Isa 5:24
    73%

    24 For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Isa 5:22
    73%

    22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!

  • Prov 11:31
    73%

    31 If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

  • Ps 26:10
    73%

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

  • Isa 1:23
    73%

    23 Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

  • Isa 5:20
    73%

    20 Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

  • Ps 94:21
    73%

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

  • Prov 21:12
    73%

    12 The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

  • Mic 3:9
    73%

    9 Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.

  • Prov 18:5
    73%

    5 To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

  • Prov 29:27
    72%

    27 An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.

  • Ezek 23:45
    72%

    45 And upright men will be her judges, judging her as false wives and women who take lives are judged; because she has been untrue to me and blood is on her hands.

  • Prov 4:17
    72%

    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Isa 3:9
    72%

    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Isa 3:11
    72%

    11 Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.

  • Ps 28:4
    72%

    4 Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.

  • Ps 1:5
    72%

    5 For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

  • Ps 37:21
    72%

    21 The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

  • Ps 34:21
    72%

    21 Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

  • 2 Chr 6:23
    72%

    23 Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving punishment to the wrongdoer, so that his sin may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.

  • Prov 28:4
    72%

    4 Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.

  • Job 8:3
    72%

    3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

  • Prov 21:18
    72%

    18 The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

  • Isa 59:14
    72%

    14 And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.