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Exodus 23:7
Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty.
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Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
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Proverbs 18:5
It is not good to show partiality to the guilty, denying an innocent person justice.
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Proverbs 24:23-24
These sayings also belong to the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgment.Whoever says to the guilty,“ You are innocent”— peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;
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James 5:6
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous, who does not resist you.
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1 Kings 21 13
The two wicked men came in and sat opposite him. Then the wicked men testified against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying,“ Naboth has cursed God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
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Amos 5:12
For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.
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Proverbs 6:16
The LORD hates six things; in fact, seven are detestable to him:
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Amos 5:7
Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground.
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Isaiah 55:8-9
“ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.” This is the LORD’s declaration.“ For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Romans 4:5
But to the one who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited for righteousness.
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Amos 6:12
Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
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Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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Luke 23:18-25
Then they all cried out together,“ Take this man away! Release Barabbas to us!”( He had been thrown into prison for a rebellion that had taken place in the city, and for murder.)Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate addressed them again,but they kept shouting,“ Crucify! Crucify him!”A third time he said to them,“ Why? What has this man done wrong? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore, I will have him whipped and then release him.”But they kept up the pressure, demanding with loud voices that he be crucified, and their voices won out.So Pilate decided to grant their demandand released the one they were asking for, who had been thrown into prison for rebellion and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.
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Ezekiel 22:27-29
“ Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.Her prophets plaster for them with whitewash by seeing false visions and lying divinations, saying,‘ This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and unlawfully exploited the resident alien.
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Proverbs 11:1
Dishonest scales are detestable to the LORD, but an accurate weight is his delight.