Proverbs 17:15
He who justifies a wicked man, and he who condemns a righteous man, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
Cross References
Exodus 23:7Keep thee far from a FALSE matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, for I will not justify a wicked man.
1 Kings 21:13And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. And the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth cursed God and the king. Then they carried him forth o
Proverbs 11:1A FALSE balance is an abomination to LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 18:5To respect the person of a wicked man is not good, [nor] to turn aside a righteous man in judgment.
Proverbs 24:24He who says to a wicked man, Thou are righteous, peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:15
14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. Here is, 1. The danger that there is in the beginning of strife. One hot word, one peevish reflection, one angry demand, one spiteful contradiction, begets another, and that a third, and so on, till it proves like the cutting of a dam; when the water has got a little passage it does itself widen the breach, bears down all before it, and there is then no stopping it, no reducing it. 2. A good… Read the whole commentary →