Proverbs 17:15
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Exodus 23:7Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.
1 Kings 21:13And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit against him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him before the people, saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king: wherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to death.
Proverbs 11:1A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will.
Proverbs 18:5It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.
Proverbs 24:24They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith 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 →