Proverbs 17:15
Those who justify the impious, and those who condemn the just, both are abominable with God.
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Exodus 23:7You shall flee from lies. The innocent and the just you shall not kill. For I shun the impious.
1 Kings 21:13And bringing forward two men, sons of the devil, they caused them to sit opposite him. And they, acting indeed like diabolical men, spoke testimony against him before the multitude: “Naboth has blasphemed God and king.” For this reason, they led him away, beyond the city, and they put him to death by stoning.
Proverbs 11:1A deceitful scale is an abomination with the Lord, and a fair weighing is his will.
Proverbs 18:5It is not good to accept the character of the impious, so as to turn away from true judgment.
Proverbs 24:24Those who say to the impious, “You are just,” shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall detest them.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways, says the 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 →