Verse 23

Who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

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  • Ps 94:21 : 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
  • Isa 10:2 : 2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 You have condemned and killed the righteous; and he does not resist you.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
  • Prov 17:15 : 15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them are an abomination to the LORD.
  • Prov 17:23 : 23 A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.
  • Prov 24:24 : 24 He who says to the wicked, You are righteous; him the people shall curse, nations shall abhor him.
  • Prov 31:4-5 : 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to crave strong drink. 5 Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
  • Exod 23:6-9 : 6 You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute. 7 Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 8 And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous. 9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe: for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
  • 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And two men, worthless fellows, came in and sat before him; and the men bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
  • 2 Chr 19:7 : 7 Therefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it, for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
  • 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 Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
  • Matt 27:24-25 : 24 When Pilate saw that he could nothing prevail, but rather a tumult was made, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. See to it yourselves. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us and on our children.