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Exodus 23:7
Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty. (niv)
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Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent. (niv)
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Proverbs 18:5
It is not good to be partial to the wicked and so deprive the innocent of justice. (niv)
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Proverbs 24:23-24
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judging is not good:Whoever says to the guilty,“ You are innocent,” will be cursed by peoples and denounced by nations. (niv)
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James 5:6
You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. (niv)
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1 Kings 21 13
Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying,“ Naboth has cursed both God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death. (niv)
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Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts. (niv)
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Proverbs 6:16
There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: (niv)
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Amos 5:7
There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground. (niv)
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Isaiah 55:8-9
“ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.“ As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (niv)
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Romans 4:5
However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. (niv)
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Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness— (niv)
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Proverbs 15:8
The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him. (niv)
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Luke 23:18-25
But the whole crowd shouted,“ Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!”( Barabbas had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again.But they kept shouting,“ Crucify him! Crucify him!”For the third time he spoke to them:“ Why? What crime has this man committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him.”But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and their shouts prevailed.So Pilate decided to grant their demand.He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will. (niv)
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Ezekiel 22:27-29
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say,‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says’— when the Lord has not spoken.The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice. (niv)
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Proverbs 11:1
The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him. (niv)