Proverbs 17:15
He that declareth the wicked innocent, and he that condemneth the righteous, yea, both of them are equally an abomination to the Lord.
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In Context
16Wherefore is the purchase-money in the hand of a fool to acquire wisdom, seeing he hath no sense?
Cross References
Exodus 23:7Keep thyself far from a false speech; and him who hath been declared innocent and righteous thou shalt not slay; for I will not justify the wicked.
1 Kings 21:13And there came in two men, worthless fellows, and seated themselves opposite to him; and these worthless men testified against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king. Then they led him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
Proverbs 11:1Balances of deceit are an abomination of the Lord; but a full weight [obtaineth] his favor.
Proverbs 18:5It is not good to favor the person of the wicked, to wrest [the cause of the] righteous in judgment.
Proverbs 24:24Him that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous, will the people denounce, him will nations hold accursed;
Isaiah 55:8For not my thoughts are your thoughts, and not your ways are 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 →