Proverbs 17:15

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 5:23 : 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
  • Exod 23:7 : 7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
  • Prov 18:5 : 5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
  • Prov 24:23-24 : 23 These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good. 24 He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous;" peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him--
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • 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.
  • Prov 6:16 : 16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
  • Isa 55:8-9 : 8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Ezek 22:27-29 : 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. 28 Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
  • Amos 5:7 : 7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
  • Amos 6:12 : 12 Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
  • Luke 23:18-25 : 18 But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!"-- 19 one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder. 20 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus, 21 but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!" 22 He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him." 23 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. 24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done. 25 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
  • Rom 4:5 : 5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.
  • Prov 11:1 : 1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

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

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

  • Prov 15:8-9
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    8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

    9The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

  • Deut 25:16
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    16For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Prov 24:24
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    24He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous;" peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him--

  • Prov 11:20
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    20Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

  • Deut 25:1
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    1If 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;

  • Job 34:17
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    17Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--

  • Prov 11:1
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    1A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

  • Prov 20:10
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    10Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

  • Mal 2:17
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    17You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

  • Prov 16:12
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    12It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

  • Prov 16:5
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    5Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

  • Prov 3:32
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    32For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

  • Amos 5:7
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    7You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

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

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

  • Prov 13:5-6
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    5A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

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

  • Prov 21:27
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    27The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

  • Prov 28:4
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    4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

  • Exod 23:7
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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.

  • Hab 1:4
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    4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

  • Ps 7:11
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    11God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

  • Prov 15:26
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    26Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

  • Job 15:16
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    16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

  • Ps 10:3
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    3For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

  • Job 36:17
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    17"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Ps 1:5-6
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    5Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

    6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

  • Ps 11:5
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    5Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

  • Prov 21:15
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    15It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

  • Isa 29:21
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    21who 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.

  • Prov 20:23
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    23Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

  • Lam 3:35-36
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    35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

    36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.

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

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

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

  • Prov 12:2
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    2A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

  • Prov 6:16
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    16There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

  • Ezek 18:5
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    5But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

  • Gen 18:25
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    25Be 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?"

  • 1 Kgs 8:32
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    32then hear in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

  • Eccl 3:16
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    16Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

  • Rom 2:2
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    2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

  • Isa 33:15
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    15He 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--

  • Isa 59:15
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    15Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

  • Amos 5:10
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    10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.