Isaiah 5:23

World English Bible (2000)

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 94:21 : 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
  • Prov 17:15 : 15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
  • Prov 17:23 : 23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
  • Prov 24:24 : 24 He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous;" peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him--
  • Prov 31:4-5 : 4 It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?' 5 lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
  • Exod 23:6-9 : 6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. 7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked. 8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous. 9 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 16:19 : 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.
  • 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king!" Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
  • 2 Chr 19:7 : 7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes."
  • Matt 23:35 : 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
  • Matt 27:24-25 : 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it." 25 All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"

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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.

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    1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

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    7 "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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    6 Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Isa 29:21
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    21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

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    23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

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    10 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

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    23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

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    20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

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

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    9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

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