Verse 7
"Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
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.