Exodus 23:7

World English Bible (2000)

"Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 34:7 : 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
  • Exod 23:1 : 1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
  • Deut 27:25 : 25 'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
  • Rom 1:18 : 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
  • Lev 19:11 : 11 "'You shall not steal. "'You shall not lie. "'You shall not deceive one another.
  • Deut 19:16-21 : 16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; 18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; 19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you. 20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you. 21 Your 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 "You shall not murder.
  • Job 22:23 : 23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
  • Prov 4:14-15 : 14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
  • Prov 17:15 : 15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--
  • Nah 1:3 : 3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
  • Luke 3:14 : 14 Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."
  • Rom 2:5-6 : 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God; 6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Abstain from every form of evil.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 23:1-3
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    1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

    2 "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

    3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Exod 23:8
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    8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

  • Jer 7:5-6
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    5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

    6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

  • Deut 19:10
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    10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

  • Jer 22:3
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    3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Deut 21:9
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    9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • Deut 19:13
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    13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

  • Lev 19:15-16
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    15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

    16 "'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. "'You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

  • Gen 18:25
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    25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

  • Ps 37:32-33
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    32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

    33 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

  • Prov 18:5
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    5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15 Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

  • Prov 21:7
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    7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Deut 27:25
    73%

    25 'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Ps 94:21
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    21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

  • Deut 13:8
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    8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:

  • Exod 20:16
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    16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

  • Ps 5:6
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    6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

  • Ps 1:5
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    5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

  • Ps 7:9
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    9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

  • Deut 16:19-20
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    19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

    20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Prov 17:15
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    15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Ps 101:7
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    7 He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Deut 25:1
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    1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

  • Prov 13:6
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    6 Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Prov 12:7
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    7 The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

  • Prov 10:30
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    30 The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

  • Zech 8:17
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    17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh.

  • Deut 5:17
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    17 "You shall not murder.

  • Ps 5:4
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    4 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

  • Deut 5:20
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    20 "Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.

  • Job 27:5
    71%

    5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

  • Num 35:31
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    31 "'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Job 34:12
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    12 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27 A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

  • Lev 19:35
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    35 "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

  • Ps 125:3
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    3 For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.

  • Job 36:6
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    6 He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

  • Prov 25:5
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    5 Take away the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

  • Isa 33:15
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    15 He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--