Proverbs 17:15
The Lord hates it when the wicked are acquitted and the innocent condemned.
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16Is there any point in stupid people trying to buy wisdom when they don't want to learn?
Cross References
Exodus 23:7Don't have anything to do with making false accusations. Don't kill the innocent or those who do right, for I won't let the guilty go unpunished.
1 Kings 21:13Two bad men came and sat opposite him, and accused him in front of the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the town and stoned him to death.
Proverbs 11:1The Lord hates dishonest scales, but accurate weights please him.
Proverbs 18:5It's not right to show favoritism to the guilty and rob the innocent of justice.
Proverbs 24:24Those who tell the guilty, “You're innocent,” will be cursed by the people and hated by the nation,
Isaiah 55:8For your thoughts are not my thoughts; and your ways are not my ways, declares 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 →