He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.
These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good. Whoever says to the wicked, “You are in the right,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations,
Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.
And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”— a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder. Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus, but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!” A third time he said to them, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.”
Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ 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 have extorted from the sojourner without justice.
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
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